A fine example

of government-run health care:

* VA says more than 57,000 patients are waiting for first visit

"...more than 57,000 new patients have waited at least 90 days for their first appointments and that about 13 percent of VA schedulers indicated they were told to falsify appointment-request dates to give the impression that wait times were shorter than they really were."

"Employees at 24 sites said they felt “threatened or coerced” to enter incorrect information..."