It comes at a time when the VA is in need of a politically savvy expert on health-care administration, budgeting, and resource allocation, as the system is on the brink of major changes that bear on national security. The system has proven to require a leader who can thread multiple bureaucratic needles with his or her eyes closed. Jackson does not clearly fit this bill. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/03/ronny-jackson-va/556799/
and qualification for the role fits Trump's hiring model. I couldn't see that he had made public any opinion on privatization, or not.