"Father served in the Army; tried to get him community-care mental-health for two years before he could clear the geographic threshold. Bill fixes the actual blocker. Lankford and the Republican leadership deserve credit for landing this with the VFW + AMVETS."

"Inside the VA. Wait-time gates are how we under-served. The peer-support workforce expansion is the right intervention — peer-led has the strongest evidence base for veteran-specific MH outcomes."