David Shulkin: “The mistake that we made was letting anybody think that we are taking the foot off the pedal on ending Veteran…”

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.

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

We need to be doing more of this in alternatives.

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