Friday, May 30, 2014

Hsieh Forbes Column: Three Factors That Corrupted VA Health Care

My second Forbes piece in two days again discusses the VA health scandal: "Three Factors That Corrupted VA Health Care And Threaten The Rest of American Medicine".

Here is the opening:
Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki has resigned in the wake of the waiting times scandal. But the problems at the VA go much deeper than a single man. His eventual successor will have his hands full dealing with the toxic combination of problems that fueled the crisis: a shortage of doctors, perverse incentives, and a widespread culture of dishonesty. And these problems could affect the rest of America under ObamaCare...
The first two of the three factors are already in play under the Affordable Care Act (aka "ObamaCare") and there are troubling early indicators that the third may take root as well.  If this happens, Americans had better watch out.