David Roe: “I think that makes a lot of sense. I think one of the things that will help the VA get better is competition.”

This is highly inappropriate. I think--and you seem to be very proud of the fact that your office has been engaged in this sort of stuff, and this way of operating.

When suicide occurs in a hospital, a place where the most vulnerable go for help, that loss feels particularly acute.

With all the metrics and good intentions and all of that, the suicide rates have not changed, so we need to do something different.

I think we all here share an objective to deal with the crisis of veteran suicide.