David Shulkin

It is an honor and a privilege to be able to serve our veterans.

We have treated, and have come to us for help, 3,200 veterans with other-than-honorable discharge.

I will be out there at midnight with other people, making sure we accurately do that assessment.

We are committed to continuing to stay at this until we end veteran homelessness.

If we do not know a veteran has other insurance it is very hard for us to go and to collect it.

I think this is a great success story of what this Committee was able to do in 2017.

TAPS strongly believes that the best way to do this is through a legislative change.

We hope there will be coordination within the IHLs so that the person actually talking to the student is aware of the changes.

Should focus on the things veterans need us to focus on and work with companies who know how to do this better than we do

Having a veteran's complete and accurate health record in a single common EHR system is critical to that care, and to improving patient safety.

The health and safety of our Veterans is one of our highest national priorities.

We want to permanently authorize this and that is where the issue of us identifying some final offsets to pay for this comes in.

I think Ms. Brownley's bill with G.T. Thompson really narrows the focus of the VA.

I can't give a stronger assurance to our providers that they absolutely will be protected using these telehealth authorities.

We are very grateful to Representative Coffman for his leadership on other than honorable.

Well, first of all, I have already indicated my strong support for allowing us to be able to access a non-veteran donor.

Your bill I think hits exactly what we want to do.

We greatly appreciate the Committee including the Administration's proposal for comprehensive improvements to the Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) Community Care program, the Veteran Coordinated Access & Rewarding Experiences (CARE)…

I created this task force by carefully selecting each of these outstanding individuals who helped to develop and determine what the best possible pilot program for MST survivors should look like.

We need to do that, and we are doing that with the Department of Defense and other Federal agencies.

I would assure your constituents, your veterans that that is our focus, strengthen the VA, but at the same time make sure that veterans aren't waiting while we are strengthening the VA.

What we learned is, is that VA needs to take back customer service, you can't outsource that.

This is about building a VA that veterans choose for their care. We want veterans to choose VA.

There is no doubt, our Vietnam veterans have waited way too long for us to bring this to resolution.

I tell people we have the best leadership and the best Committees in both the House and the Congress anywhere.