David Roe: “If the attorney-client privilege is arguable, if we are arguing about that, then we have lost a very basic right.”

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

I will not sit here and tell you that I am going to give you a metric and that we will eliminate veteran suicide.

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

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.