David Roe: “In the real world, in the hospital where I practiced and taught at the medical school, 60 percent of the uncollectible…”

Why don't we take a public health approach?

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 want to thank you for having this. I think we should continue this, because this is a travesty in the United States to have these kinds of mortality rates.

I want to give the VA a shout-out and there are some--obviously, we are going over some problems today that the VA had, but all in all I think the VA probably has the opportunity to be one of the best systems in the country.