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Pete Hegseth and Doug Collins’s push to cut VA health benefits concerns veterans groups

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Pete Hegseth , President-elect's defense secretary nominee, and Doug Collins , his pick for veterans affairs secretary, have advocated greater privatization of veterans' healthcare.

Dr. David Shulkin , a former VA secretary, wrote a memoir in 2019 in which he quoted him telling Trump in March 2018 , "We want to have full choice where veterans can go wherever they want for care" Critics see that as the first step toward further privatizing healthcare and tearing down the VA system.