and, in fact, have developed the proposal and have been working very closely with tricare and samhsa to try and move that forward. the two issues that you really see are peer support and in-home care. it's peer support because you must build the network of veterans, how they felt like they were in the service. you must have your brothers in arms, you must have your fellow service members standing beside you to overcome stigma, to get through this and to feel that camaraderie that you once felt. and you must get in the home. because pulling a veteran out of home, treating them, and then putting them back in their home is treating a very small portion of the problem. we recognize that consumers in our system often would really be able to provide support to their peers. yet, there really wasn't a mechanism to do that. we decided to start a recovery support institute to train and certify persons who had been through treatment in our system, that then could come out as certified recovery support specialists and work at our providers and provide services. hope stands for helping ourselves

and so that means that tricare has to go into the community and have relationships with those community providers. that's all continuing to move, ivette, and shift dramatically, as each state then has to make its own health exchange and health insurance plans. so, yes, you're correct, it is dramatic. well when we come back, i want to continue on the thought of the cost to society of not meeting the needs of all of these individuals as well as some of the programs that are available to...have families continue to access treatment. we'll be right back. for more information on national recovery month , to find out how to get involved, or to locate an event near you, visit the recovery month web site at recoverymonth.gov. i had no idea it was going to be so hard. i didn't know what to expect. you hear the stories, but i never took any of it seriously until i found myself here. and then i realized i was going to have to work hard for my recovery. if you or someone you know has a drug or alcohol problem, you are not alone. call 1-800-662-help. recovery was the hardest job i ever had... and th

give him a chance to mess with tricare, which is an unbelievable health care system which takes caren military retirees who pay $4707 a year premium. no co-pay and it costs $53 billion a year. let him toy with that stuff, and he will, and he'll do some good things. . >> sounds like you have some concerns about the general notion of saying that because we don't have the political will to wrestle with specific cuts, let's put in a trigger that drops the guillotine on a lot of things so we can say well, that was the trigger, that wasn't us. >> that's what's going to happen if the super 12 can't make up their minds. and you want to watch that one. if they don't put the gang of six into the super 12, you're watching leaders who are going to juice that thing up so it will fail. unless they take these six wonderful people, three dems and three republicans, all guided by joe biden through the swamps over the last month and leave them off of the super 12, you know they've picked a sewer structure for failure of the super 12. >> without particular names, what kind of congress members do you th

room and many others across the country have attempted to address these inequities through better tricare for underserved populations. better community-based prevention and many other strategies. in 2011, we know we need to do more. much more. an individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individual concerns to the concerns of all humanity. right now despite some of the tremendous challenges of our time, we have some brilliant opportunities before us. late last year, -- the ten- year plan for disease prevention. healthy people is a road map and compass for country. i was privileged to unveil healthy people 20/20. a 20/20 vision for a healthier country for the next 10 years. in that document, which stressed that it achieving health equity and eliminating disparities remains one of the four overarching goals of that effort and our country at large. also, we have had of course the passage of the affordable care act in 2010. so much discussion and conversation about the -- i would like to summarize this act in one line. it gives all people the three t