David Shulkin is winning plaudits from across the aisle for his work remaking the Veterans Affairs administration and revamping healthcare for former soldiers. “What motivates me and what motivates Dr. Shulkin is the same, to provide the best care to veterans,” Tennessee Republican representative Phil Roe told Politico. “I don’t know whether he’s a Republican…
Go into one of the veterans hospitals in Washington, D.C. and the doctor who is seeing you might be a Cabinet secretary. David Shulkin, the veterans’ affairs department head, is apparently still treating patients as he attempts to reform the huge bureaucracy he runs. “Sometimes leaders get disconnected from their organizations,” Dr. Shulkin, who was…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The U.S. Senate confirmed David Shulkin as secretary of Veterans Affairs in a rare 100-0 vote. Shulkin, a Jewish physician, was deputy VA secretary under President Barack Obama and is the only holdover from the former administration. His vote was a rare moment of bipartisan support for a nominee of President Trump….
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