Even though an increasing number of VA hospitals were shown to be failing, according to a scoring system set up in 2011, the VA suspended visits to its facilities. You can’t trust bureaucratic organizations to ensure good care.

The left has always held up the Veterans Affairs hospitals as shining examples of socialized medicine. But new revelations about secret waiting lists at a VA hospital in Phoenix paint a very different picture.

Even doctors agree that over-treatment is a pervasive problem in our health care system. It’s time to chance the incentives.