So my amendment basically says if we can let, let's have the VA do it everywhere and let's have service members be able to get it everywhere so that they aren't Veterans... are killing themselves at the rate of 17 to 20 a day. when we have a treatment that's 85% effective and that amendment passed. And so I would hope that we could continue down, down that path and save our veterans. (01:50)
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