David Shulkin: “If we can keep them in their home with caregivers, we should be doing that.”

Delays, as you know, can prevent a veteran who may be ready to confront addiction from actually seeking treatment.

This is a tough job for anybody to do. What the successful secretary needs to do is to build a team around them because this is bigger than any one person, and to work very collaboratively with veteran service organizations and Congress.

I do believe that our unions are productive partners with us, and I do really appreciate the collaboration that we have because I believe that they care about getting the right services to Veterans.

It takes way too long to get this stuff done.