Trump rolls out national plan to address veteran suicides

49 thoughts on “Trump rolls out national plan to address veteran suicides”

1. Dear U.S. Veterans:

   Welcome home and thank you for your service!!!

   You, our U.S. Veterans, deserve the best healthcare that even God Himself expects our Veterans to receive, including first-do-no-harm healthcare. For example, the very great human resources and other resources of VA healthcare research capability may very well be what God uses to put an end to the international pandemic of mental healthcare iatrogenesis which is a major cause of psychiatric morbidity and mortality including suicides. However, the VA needs to take more steps to allow our U.S. Veterans to drive VA research and VA healthcare. For indeed, one of the most valuable human resources for such research and healthcare improvements is our U.S. Veterans themselves, including through empowering our U.S. Veterans to drive this research through educating and inviting our U.S. Veterans to ask their VA physicians and other VA researchers to help them achieve God’s command for a truly first-do-no-harm mental healthcare journey. For example, the VA’s Psychotropic Drug Safety Initiative (PDSI) success at decreasing the use of harmful psychiatric drugs (in a very limited area of VA use of these harmful drugs) was an important first step in improving VA mental healthcare as God Himself expects our great country to do for our absolutely great Veterans as proven in my ethics teaching and the best-in-class expert witness references in my 5/2/18 letter to the editor of the British Medical Journal, and my 3/1/18 and 8/16/18 Medicald.gov public comments (which are set in the context of two real-life current-events public health policy examples and) available for free at the following three URL addresses:

   https://www.bmj.com/content/356/bmj.j1058/rr-1

   https://gov1.qualtrics.com/ControlPanel/File.php?F=F_82GUvJLhGv4erDn

   https://gov1.qualtrics.com/ControlPanel/File.php?F=F_4SLEiyf2ZtEeb4h

   These above resources clearly prove the crucial need for even more research and help for our Veterans in this area, as do experts Robert Whitaker and Derek Blumke in there excellent 11/10/19 report “Screening + Drug Treatment = Increase in Veteran Suicides,” which makes the sad and astounding finding that the increase in American Veteran suicides associated with an overall increase in VA mental health screening and psychiatric drug treatment clearly accounts for a greater number of U.S. Veteran deaths than all U.S. combat deaths since 9/11:

   https://www.madinamerica.com/2019/11/screening-drug-treatment-increase-veteran-suicides/

   Our very great Commander in Chief President Trump and even God Himself expects much better for our absolutely great U.S. Veterans.

   Accordingly, for all U.S. Veterans everywhere, please feel free to share this open letter and embedded links with your VA physicians to start a proper informed consent discussion with your VA physicians about these lifesaving issues and how you may benefit from a Veteran-driven and at the same time fully physician-supervised reduction in harmful psychiatric drugs and the start of a first-do-no-harm mental healthcare plan. For you, our U.S. Veterans, are the most important healthcare researchers in the VA, and you should be driving VA medical research and care with every good work God gives you in this lifesaving medical research and care mission.

   In Biblical Love for All U.S. Veterans and VA and Military Physicians and Researchers Everywhere,

   Thomas Steven Roth, MBA, MD
   
   Christian Minister for Biblical Medical Ethics, and therefore,
   
   Religious and Scientific Refugee from the Clinical Practice of Psychiatric Standards of Care
   
   P.O. Box 24211
   
   Louisville, KY 40224
   
   June 19, 2020

2. Just send 8balls and hookers to the VA centers

3. Is it just me or does he look like he is reading off a paper..not one he wrote himself but someone wrote for him?

4. Feel bad for them! They come out so damaged!

5. Have them enter a stay active after retirement program we have Star in Florida.

6. OMG!! Am so excited,am free from herpes virus and the result was amazing

7. Does the coronavirus turn you orange asking for a friend 😂

8. "Beautiful, tremendous suicides. No one has ever seen anything like it….blah…blah….fucking blah….."

9. Is tht task force 141?

10. Legalize weed Federally for all Vets. Perhaps decrimalization of cannabis could help with the opioid crisis to a certain degree. Suicide is an awful thing for a family to endure. When it's a person who served their country in unselfish ways we need for our elected officials to figure out a plan. This is a start.

11. BS. Is that why the VA hospitals are closed and won't reopen until July. I haven't had a cortisone shot since January and physical exercise is a must for coping with my PTSD. You care? Ok. Why does it take so long to be approved for disability when you have problems coping with every day life and can't earn sufficient to live decently. Ants on a vet in a hospital bed. Another setting himself on fire in front of the state Capitol. Did it help things to improve? Nope. Try again.

12. Bring back the damn painkillers, maybe they would stop.

13. Aww well listen to old geriatric bone spur himself he need to detracts from everything he’s doing and trying to get votes it won’t work you evil idiot

14. Government lies. As a soldier asked to sacrifice, once sacrifice is made government denies issues like PTSD, Nerve agent exposure, and radiation poisoning from handling use of depleted uranium round during 1st gulf war. Standard substandard practice of putting on a good face to press, but deny services to troops as thing like PTSD labeled as a preexisting personality disorder (not their fault) you are just mental bad apple. Nerve agent exposure and radiation poisonings denied services as deemed too expensive to treat long term. Using shady tricks like sending out time sensitive paperwork with specified return by dates after the date is up. Example return date October 21st, sent from their offices to you October 22nd. Too late to do any good purposely delayed so you need to keep filing paperwork while suffering war related injury. Do not make sacrifices for them they use, abuse, and throw you away. Best you can hope for is empty platitude "thank you for your service" from civilians. The only reward you can expect for military service.

15. War criminals can't handle the guilt of killing innocent people

16. president chump how about stop defunding Veteran's budget to reallocate it to that stupid wall you promised Mexico was going to pay for.

17. He’s sounds sick

18. If this scumbag is addressing it, there must be deeper issues. What percentage of Special Operations? What percentage people of color? Are they suicides? Or is Russia systematically snuffing out those that could potentially lead a resistance?

19. :58 cooperating with 30 corporations. Yeah, 30 more companies that are now going to be sucking on the corporate teat. I bet every company the VA will be dealing with is owned by a member of one of Trump's country clubs or golf courses.

20. The only person Donald Trump cares about is Donald Trump.

21. 0:48
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22. Trump Pathological Liar. VOTE BLUE, and let’s BREATHE again. DUMP THE TRUMP. VOTE BLUE.

23. Thank you President Trump for all you sacrifice to keep us safe. You have made such a big difference in how our Veterans are treated. God Bless America! Indivisible we are!

24. Oh, so he's ready to play with his toy soldiers again – nothing to do with the upcoming election of course.

25. Last minute PR move before the election.

26. DEFUND Ageda Broadcasting Channel

27. Much talk, lets see good action,, not just empty words, THE system is one Big Lie…..

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29. Right… as a vet I'm gonna say that this is the biggest bunch of mealymouth nothing speech hes made to vets yet. Treatment at the va is probably the worst thing that any vet can have. Hell i go to a regular hospital for treatments rather than the va. Ive had too many friends die or suffer from their so called care..

30. Millions of American suffering from TDS
    PRAY FOR A CURE 🙏

31. President Trump keep up the great job You are the BEST

32. Democrats priority: Banning Uncle Ben Rice 🌚

33. quick we are losing military support.. anybody got a "national plan" or something?

34. Thank you Mr. President from a proud veteran.

35. Apparently Donald were left alone to long, now you have now friends and barely a wife (& she sleep in another room).
    You need to seek help for your losses and quit firing people, holding grudges against dead people or old presidents. 👎🛑

36. This is like studying for an exam the night before. What's he been doing all this time, besides lying?

37. Trump believes Finland is a part of Russia ! 😆

38. 👴

39. Everyone loves a soldier until the war ends..Republicans or ….. pay lip service, nothing more .BS

40. He needs mental health himself.

41. Suddenly, after 3 1/2 years, he gives a hoot about Police brutality, seniors and veterans? Gimme a break.

42. THIS IS ANOTHER DISTRACTION FROM BOLTON REVEALING TRUMP WANT NORTH KOREA TO HELP HIM WIN THE RE ELECTION

43. Read more, speak less

44. Great man
    You have changed the life’s of colored people
    God bless you trump
    God bless America ❤️

45. how is this a battle? this is justice at a civilian level.

46. Yet you think you should take away rights of trans people from healthcare places

47. I hope who reads this will be successful one day Let's do our best from Japanese youtuber🇯🇵

48. Can we really trust Trump to help veterans when he faked an injury to get out of war, had a charity that scammed money that was supposedly raising money for veterans, and as President his Administration refunded the VA?

49. He's an idiot!

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