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Coffman gets unanimous House approval for combat veterans’ mental health bill
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The U.S. House this week approved Rep. Mike Coffman’s bill to help less-than-honorably discharged veterans get mental health assistance after serving in combat. H.R. 918, called the Veteran Urgent Access to Mental HealthCare Act, would require the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide initial mental health assessments and ongoing care. Coffman said the House “sent…

