Work to ensure veterans can access urgent mental health care through community providers, with fewer approval delays and continued access to community care.

The Never Fight Alone Act would: Ensure veterans can access urgent mental health care through community providers. Protect veterans’ right to choose their doctor and reduce approval delays. Require congressional approval for any changes to community care access.

Patronis is backing legislation to expand urgent veteran mental health care access through community providers and reduce delays.

Congressman Patronis Introduces “Never Fight Alone Act” to Tackle Veterans’ Mental Health Crisis | Representative Jimmy Patronis
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Patronis said he introduced the Never Fight Alone Act to improve access to urgent mental health care for veterans. The release says the bill would ensure veterans can access urgent mental health care through community providers, protect the right to choose a doctor, and reduce approval delays.

Direct, recent legislative action aligned with the promise: he introduced a bill aimed at urgent community-provider mental health access and fewer delays for veterans.

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Congressman Patronis Introduces “Never Fight Alone Act” to Tackle Veterans’ Mental Health Crisis | Representative Jimmy Patronis
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The House passed H.R. 8469 on May 15, 2026, 400-15. The bill is the military construction, VA, and related agencies appropriations measure for FY2027, the same measure Patronis said he voted to advance and that included funding for veterans' health care and community care.

He supported a major VA appropriations bill that funded veterans' health care and community care, which is concrete progress but not full completion of the underlying promise.

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