It was clear that VA was in need of reform, and when the president asked for help, I could not say no. First, I felt I could help, and my private sector experience was relevant. Second, that this was my chance to give back to those that had stepped up to serve our country.

I don't believe that the problems in the VA are necessarily about money. When I look back over the problems of the VA over the past decade, this is fundamentally a system that hasn't kept up with modernization in the way that the rest of health care in the private sector has.

We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't.

A veteran deserves the very best health care anywhere. That means sometimes, they should go out into the private sector if something's being done better than the VA.

Medicare provided guaranteed equal coverage, something that the private sector could not.

Obama is from this group that resents the private sector, resents the capitalistic means of production.