The former VA secretary represents his fight to save veteran health care from partisan politics and exactly how his efforts were ultimately derailed by a little band of unelected officials appointed from the Trump White Home.

Known in health care circles for his capability to turn around ailing hospitals, Dr. David Shulkin was originally brought into authorities by Leader Obama to save the beleaguered Department of Veterans Affairs. When President Trump appointed him as secretary of the VA, Shulkin was as about any of it Shouldn’t Be This Hard to Serve Your Nation: Our Broken Government and the Plight of Veterans stunned as anyone.

Yet this surprise was trivial compared to what Shulkin encountered simply because secretary: a group of political appointees devoted to stopping anyone — including the secretary himself — who stood in the form of privatizing the company and implementing their political agenda. Within this uninhibited memoir, Shulkin starts up about why the federal government has long battled to provide great health care to military veterans and the program he had to resolve these problems. This is a book about the dedication we make to the men and women who risk their lives fighting for our country, how the VA was finally beginning to surpass it, and why the brand new administration may right now be taking us in the incorrect direction.