David Shulkin: “TAPS strongly believes that the best way to do this is through a legislative change.”

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.

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

Since April of 2017, I think this is a very much better environment for our veterans.

I do believe that our unions are productive partners with us, and I do really appreciate the collaboration that we have because I believe that they care about getting the right services to Veterans.