It Shouldn't Be This Hard to Serve Your Country: Our Broken Government and the Plight of Veterans by Shulkin, David
It Shouldn't Be This Hard to Serve Your Country: Our Broken Government and the Plight of Veterans by Shulkin, David

It Shouldn't Be This Hard to Serve Your Country: Our Broken Government and the Plight of Veterans

The former VA secretary describes his fight to save veteran health care from partisan politics and how...
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SKU: 9781541762657
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Author: David Shulkin
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Language: English
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It Shouldn't Be This Hard to Serve Your Country: Our Broken Government and the Plight of Veterans by Shulkin, David

It Shouldn't Be This Hard to Serve Your Country: Our Broken Government and the Plight of Veterans

€51,74
It Shouldn't Be This Hard to Serve Your Country: Our Broken Government and the Plight of Veterans by Shulkin, David

It Shouldn't Be This Hard to Serve Your Country: Our Broken Government and the Plight of Veterans

€51,74
Author: David Shulkin
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
The former VA secretary describes his fight to save veteran health care from partisan politics and how his efforts were ultimately derailed by a small group of unelected officials appointed by the Trump White House.
Known in health care circles for his ability to turn around ailing hospitals, Dr. David Shulkin was originally brought into government by President Obama to save the beleaguered Department of Veterans Affairs. When President Trump appointed him as secretary of the VA, Shulkin was as shocked as anyone.
Yet this surprise was trivial compared to what Shulkin encountered as secretary: a team of political appointees devoted to stopping anyone -- including the secretary himself -- who stood in the way of privatizing the agency and implementing their political agenda. In this uninhibited memoir, Shulkin opens up about why the government has long struggled to provide good medical care to military veterans and the plan he had to solve these problems. This is a book about the commitment we make to the men and women who risk their lives fighting for our country, how the VA was finally beginning to live up to it, and why the new administration may now be taking us in the wrong direction.



Author: David Shulkin
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: 10/22/2019
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.30w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9781541762657

About the Author
The Honorable David Shulkin, M.D. joined the Department of Veterans Affairs in 2015, first as Under Secretary for Health and then as the ninth Secretary of Veterans Affairs. He was the only Obama holdover who served in the Cabinet within the Trump administration and the only one unanimously confirmed by the Senate. Prior to his government service, Shulkin worked in a number of health care administration roles, including as President and CEO of New York's Beth Israel Medical Center and President of Morristown Medical Center in New Jersey. He is the Distinguished Health Policy Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, practices internal medicine in New York City, and still advocates on behalf of veterans.
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