David Williams is the co-founder of MedPharma Partners LLC, a strategy consultant in technology-enabled healthcare services, pharma, biotech, and medical devices. Williams blogs regularly at the Health Business Blog.
Ugly stories about waiting lists and poor care in VA facilities are coming out in the press. But in truth, there is not enough information to say whether the VA system is worse or better than the private system as a whole, or even to compare the VA with individual private sector hospitals.