Since 2010, the number of veterans receiving care for PTSD from the VA healthcare system has grown by more than 50 percent and despite historic and ever-increasing investments in VA mental health services and supports since the turn of the century, suicide rates among veterans with PTSD are not declining.
David Roe highlights the increase in PTSD care but notes rising veteran suicide rates.
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The provision in Section 2, it says, 'The Secretary shall give preference in the provision of financial assistance under this section to eligible entities who have demonstrated the ability to provide assistance and suicide prevention…
As long as I am in the Congress I will never vote to see the VA do a major project again.
If you were, you wouldn't behave like this. And nobody would spend their own money like this.
I believe we have to really get back and reconstitute our mental health infrastructure in this country.
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