Thank you very much. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I cant thank you enough for being here today, the sacrifices that you have made. I pray that the sacrifices that you and your entire family made will make us a better nation at the end of the day. I think most that sign up to serve have that intention, that they will make this a better nation at the end of the day. I am a physician and also a reservist and i served in iraq for a year. That has led me to want to be here today. One of the things i know as a doctor and im sure dr. Somers you can relate, that when you have patients, regardless of their problems, there is a level of anxiety that, because they have something wrong, whether its muscular, skeletal or mental, it doesnt matter. Something is wrong and there is anxiety. It makes it more difficult and heightens the anxiety when you have all these administrative problems. I know you started to deal with that in private practice. More so maybe than when you first started. The prescription
Are you looking at partnerships equine therapy. I have a Great Program in my district, a successful program. They could partner with programs like that. Community partnerships, engaged as part of Community Helping them. Are you asking if every v. A. Should have equine therapy . I want to know how we can increase these partnerships. Ill use my own example, im really watching the clock here. My time has run out. Ill follow up with my question. Thank you. A question for dr. Mccarthy following up closely on a few others. What are the waiting times for access to Mental Health care. Its hard to give an tut number given that both members of this committee and i have said im not sure we trust the actual numbers. What we now have, though, transparently are information about access. I printed and brought some of that information. Whats posted is for every v. A. Medical center what the new patient Mental Health wait time is, the established Mental Health wait time and then running average over th
Washington a bailout. He criticized republicans and he said they are playing politics with peoples lives. Florida Governor Ron Desantis has a plan to reopen his state. The state announced its highest oneday death toll yet. At least 83 floridians lost their lives to covid19 on tuesday alone. This is an nbc News Analysis finds that no state has has opted to reopen has technical met the 14day decline in new cases that the federal government guidelines call for before reopening. Of course, as we know, they are guidelines, not mandates. We continue to cover this unprecedented crisis in modern life, we are aiming to bring you all of the angles about the fight for save lives and to find a cure and rebuild our economy so we can adjust to this new way of life that the virus has forced upon us. To do that for now in the foreseeable near term, im joined by my coanchor the next couple of hours in the field, katy tur, who is live for us in a place that we know its not normal when its as empty as it
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