David Shulkin: “I want to be clear. I am committed to strengthening the VA system and will not support efforts to privatize this much…”

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

Veterans come first, absolutely.

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.

I think you are absolutely correct. It is why we have had a 90-percent reduction on new starts in opioids because we are using a different approach.