Rick Perry's concern for veterans sparks effort to reshape nation's healthcare

Energy Secretary Rick Perry is big on coal, natural gas and nuclear energy, but he also has a passion for veterans that he wants to use to change the face of U.S. healthcare.

The energy agency is typically seen as being “about promoting fossil fuels, we’re about doing our duty to the country from the standpoint of promoting [liquefied natural gas], to be a part of a civil nuclear energy program that has global implications from the standpoint of making energy, and clean energy, available around the world,” Perry told the Washington Examiner in an interview.