I think fundamentally that we have to take away this interdisciplinary care team they have at Veterans Affairs. It is a policy interdisciplinary committee that rules on files of veterans they've never treated. It provides a sort of fake front that Veterans Affairs really is using a collaborative interdisciplinary care model. What we have to do is take that out of Veterans Affairs' hands and put it into those of actual practitioners who treat veterans.
This interdisciplinary team within Veterans Affairs is truly an insurance model. It is a group of policy experts who sit around and decide how to deny care. We need a care team that knows the veterans, that sits outside of the department and that asks how they can provide care for this veteran.