David Shulkin actually said...

We want to permanently authorize this and that is where the issue of us identifying some final offsets to pay for this comes in.

Shulkin discusses the need for permanent authorization of the Choice Program.

10/23/2017

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I respect the important role that Congress has in ensuring veterans receive quality healthcare and benefits that they rightly deserve.

my expectation is, the Secretary's expectation, is that we are going to take actions to remove people who are not following the VA values.

I have personally used them, and people go from being essentially unconscious to waking up and talking to you in a matter of seconds.

Anything that we can do to help eliminate barriers to the use of these drugs I think would be important.