; Whereas the Department of Veterans Affairs is better equipped than most non-VA providers to coordinate complex veteran care and provide continuity of resources for veterans, yet an increasing number of veterans are being sent into the private sector each year, first pursuant to the Veterans Access, Choice, and Accountability Act of 2014 ( Public Law 113–146 ) and now pursuant to the VA MISSION Act of 2018 ( Public Law 115–182 ); Whereas mental health services, including suicide prevention, are of paramount importance; Whereas the over 420,000 employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs are dedicated public servants; Whereas, according to a bipartisan survey by Lake Research and Chesapeake Beach Consulting, 80 percent of veterans polled oppose turning health care provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs into a system of private sector vouchers that may not adequately cover costs; Whereas a Veterans of Foreign Wars survey found that 92 percent of veterans believe working to fix the VA, rather than dismantling it, is the best way to improve the care provided to America’s veterans; Whereas millions of dollars are being spent by organizations which value dismantling the Department of Veterans Affairs and outsourcing veteran care for private profit over investing in the Department; Whereas one of the top priorities should be the expansion of care for the more than 4,700,000 rural veterans by using rural clinics, VA mobile clinics, and telemedicine under the supervision of each veteran’s primary VA doctor; Whereas funding has not been increased sufficiently under the VA MISSION Act of 2018 ( Public Law 115–182 ) for the Veteran Community Care Program that pays for the costs of providing veterans private health care at the same time that the Administration is requesting inadequate funding for medical services at the Veterans Health Administration; Whereas the freedom of workers to organize unions is an internationally recognized human right, enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights