David Shulkin: “I will not delay a day to keep these veterans out of the middle.”

The VA has a responsibility to increase its capacity for substance abuse.

Delays, as you know, can prevent a veteran who may be ready to confront addiction from actually seeking treatment.

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.

But like any business, the times change, the needs change and it's time for us to look at how we operate our networks differently to get the type of accountability that's needed to make sure we don't see the failures that we saw here in…