David Shulkin: “the problems that we have in the VA are not primarily financial. These are primarily system issues that we haven't kept…”

Since April of 2017, I think this is a very much better environment for our veterans.

I am confident that we made the right decision here, that Congress has been asking us, for now 18 years, to find a way to get our systems to work together with the Department of Defense.

There is no pressure to privatize. There is pressure to fix the system.

I think the way the findings were used -- were used in a political way. Not by the inspector general, but by the political appointees within V.A.