Telehealth is a critical tool to ensure our veterans, especially rural veterans, can access health care when and where they need it.  It affords our warfighters the opportunity to be in a comfortable setting without the pressures or stress of a large institution. 

Additional emphasis should be placed particularly on telemental health in preventing suicides. An estimated 20 veteran and active duty service members take their lives each and everyday. 14 of whom are people who were not seeking care at the time of their death.  Access to these critical services could be a real gamechanger in the lives of our nation's heroes and their families. We owe them that.