RICH LOWRY, NATIONAL REVIEW: Politically, it will play into the narrative of the administration's incompetence coming so quickly on the heels of the Healthcare.gov disaster. But this is a problem endemic not just to the VA, but to single-payer type healthcare systems where you have an unaccountable bureaucracy that ultimately is not about consumers but is about its own interest.



There's a reform bill in the Congress, John, that seems so common-senseical that you'd you think it would have been adopted decades and decades ago just giving the Secretary the power to fire top management when they are engaged in malfesience. You know, the person who is heading the facility at the center of this hasn't been fired yet.



