Yes, indeed. Shulkin looks to me to be a star.
He quit a $1.3 million leadership position in medicine to take the Under Secretary job at $170K a year.
We should be patient with Trump’s choice here. After all Trump has said about fixing the VA, do you think he would pick someone weak?
And as for choosing a veteran instead, that’s mostly symbolic. Pick competent people who get things done. Sounds a lot like the MSM BS: “Oh, Trump is totally qualified to be President because he was never in government before...” That’s already been proven wrong given what Trump’s done before he’s even been in office.
I would rather have a veteran health and medical expert run the VA — someone with a proven track record in that very complex field.
“We should be patient with Trump’s choice here. After all Trump has said about fixing the VA, do you think he would pick someone weak?”
Absolutely! And we should stop with all the armchair quarterbacking before the fact. Those here who pi$$ and moan around about this choice or that for the various positions need to shut their traps until such time as a given appointee actually shows he or she is demonstrably ineffective or some sort of turncoat. Personally, I regard the VA as a boondoggle government jobs program at it’s core, not a hospital system for our veterans. What veterans should be demanding is a healthcare system par excellance, not a place for ill-equipped, unqualified retired military types to glom onto additional retirement benefits and/or pay.
Shulkin had also written something earlier that grabbed Trump’s attention-—about reordering the management of the VA behemoth.
Trump likes people who manage things.