Congress has a chance to deliver for America’s veterans. It should take it

More than 1.7 million veterans live with PTSD, and veterans continue to face a suicide risk disproportionately higher than the civilian population. Yet veterans often wait weeks, if not months, to receive treatment. Despite the Department of Veterans Affairs’s 20- to 28-day access standard for primary, specialist, and mental healthcare, wait times are much longer, […]

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