David Shulkin: “I ask for your steadfast support in funding our full FY 2019 and FY 2020 AA budget requests.”

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.

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.

We need to be doing more of this in alternatives.

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