David Roe: “We had a huge backlog of claims, that was the problem we had and many of these claims not adjudicated in a way that…”

If you were, you wouldn't behave like this. And nobody would spend their own money like this.

The members here have heard me say this many times, in the Guard in Tennessee we have a program called Guard Your Buddy, which has been shown to reduce suicide by almost 70 percent.

Why don't we take a public health approach?

We have to reach out and try to find those 14 who never get to the VA, never get the care.