dr. shulkin to be a force testimony as well. >> thank you, mr. chairman. chairman isakson, ranking member blumenthal, members of the committee, thank you for this time to talk about p.a.s ongoing transmission in the commission on care's final report. i wish the house that allowed me the same opportunity last week that neither i nor the veterans service organizations were invited to testify in person. ask my written statement be submitted for the record. >> without objection. >> thank you, sir. let me thank mr. schmoke and for sharing the commissioner i know it wasn't easy that nancy did an outstanding job in keeping things together. over all i see the commission's report as validation of the course we bid on for the past two years. there started anything in the report we haven't already thought of or are not over doing as part of her ongoing my va transformation efforts. we differ on some details but we wholeheartedly agree with the intent of almost all of the commission's recommendations your 15 out of 18. we agree on how wrong it would be to privatize th