David Shulkin: “We want to permanently authorize this and that is where the issue of us identifying some final offsets to pay for this…”

We are putting the Veterans' needs first and the money follows.

We need to be doing more of this in alternatives.

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

As you know, coming from a provider background, I strongly believe people deserve to get paid when they deliver a service, and we have failed many of our providers in terms of that.