David Shulkin

I think that trust was eroded, particularly with the wait time crisis in April 2014, and many people lost trust.

If you do not have trust in the group that is empowered to take care of you and provide you services, you cannot do your job very well.

I will continue to request appropriate levels of funding to ensure that Veteran homelessness is rare, brief, and nonrecurring.

I fully support reforming the current appeals process.

To care for him who shall have borne the battle.

The Department of Veterans Affairs will not be privatized under my watch.

If confirmed as Secretary, I will seek major reform and a transformation of VA.

Our country's sacred obligation to fully honor our commitments to our Veterans is deeply personal to me.

It is my highest professional honor to be nominated for consideration as the next Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

Our veterans deserve the very best, and with your support, I am confident we will succeed.

I will meet you there.

Northport's next step is fully resolving its HVAC systems and has engaged an outside consultant to complete a full evaluation of the system.

We are just getting it to work. If we could get Veterans First passed through, it is even going to work a lot better.

We believe that we understand the needs of veterans best.

This would be irresponsible just to turn people out with no deductibles, no cost-control mechanisms.

We believe that, as the VA, we need to take that responsibility, that when a veteran goes out to the private sector, we still have to own the responsibility for that health care.

We do not want to find ourselves, like Senator Boozman said, 50 years down the road with outdated technology.

I think, as Senator Boozman said, some of these problems date back years and years.

I truly believe this is a new VA.

It's working today, millions of veterans' lives depend upon it.

It's going to be a major advance.

The country should be proud that we developed this system.

We're trying to make the best decision for, exactly as you're saying, the veterans and the taxpayers, and everything's on the table.

VA needs the ability to have veterans schedule appointments themselves. No question about it.

I agree with Ranking Member Kuster that the wait time crisis in 2014 was in part caused by an archaic scheduling system that is almost impossible to figure out.