Asking you how can Veterans Health programs be improved and ryan wright posted a national singlepayer system that allows vets to go to any hospital or put them in medicare system. We go into the help not to feel like we dreamed up symptoms. Three Family Members of veterans told their story on capital hill and discussed how the Veterans Affairs could do a better job. If i could get everybody to take their seats, please. The hearing will come to order. Before we begin i would like to ask consent for scott peters from california and representati representati representative arizona to sit up here with us. I would like to welcome you to service should not lead to suicide access to vas Mental Health care. Following a Committee Investigation that uncovered widespread data manipulation this committee has held a full committee of oversight hearings over the last several weeks to evaluate the systemic failures that have consumed the Veterans Health care system. None of them have contained the fa
Gamechanging kind of potential to have someone like ted championing this cause, and it had the potential it turn it from what had been at best a partisan fight into a debate about civil rights. And so they then set out to find the plaintiffs. And ted actually had wanted a different kind of he had a specific set of criteria. He wanted a bookstore owner. He wanted a cop. And i forget what the other two they wanted six altogether because they figured what if the opposition turned up something in somebodys background. They just wanted to have more, and he didnt want any children. He thought that that was a complicating kind of factor, which is, of course, really ironic because if any of you have followed this, when Justice Kennedy when these cases finally got to the Supreme Court, it was the kids that Justice Kennedy was very focused on, like what about the 40,000 children of gay couples in california . Dont they have arent they part of this story . Arent they part of this argument . Why s