David Shulkin: “The new policies proposed in this budget to pay for private care are simply untenable.”

This is critical to us and our top priority to reduce veterans' suicide.

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

I think that--my preference would be that we have--since VA uses a different model of primary care...

I received a phone call saying that the President wanted to make a change, and that's certainly his prerogative to do that, and that's what happened.