David Shulkin: “We have identified a need for 1,000 mental health professionals.”

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.

It just simply couldn't work by turning on a switch and privatizing it.

The VISN model was put in place close to 20 years ago, a very innovative model that has served VA well.

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