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Tanuki

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1. This is good news. Shulkin, btw, was an Obama appointee.
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 07:18 AM
Mar 2017
https://www.google.com/amp/abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/trumps-pick-va-secretary-david-shulkin/story%3Fid%3D44715565

".....He is Trump's first Cabinet member who was appointed to a position in the Obama administration.
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His last job: Undersecretary for health for the Department of Veterans Affairs. He was nominated to the position by Obama in March 2015 and confirmed by the Senate in June 2015.

What he used to do: He was the president at Morristown Medical Center in New Jersey from 2010 to 2015. During that time, he also served in several chief executive roles in the state, at Goryeb Children's Hospital, the Atlantic Rehabilitation Institute and the Atlantic Health System Accountable Care Organization. Shulkin also served as the president and CEO of Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City from 2005 to 2009. He founded a health care information company called DoctorQuality.

Hometown: Born on an Army base in Highland Park, Illinois."
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(Amazing that Trump actually filled one post with someone who was qualified for the job!)

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