Private Health Care for Veterans?

This just in: 

More veterans are being allowed to obtain health care at private hospitals and clinics in an effort to improve their treatment following allegations of falsified records and delays in treatment. In a statement issued Saturday, Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki also said VA facilities are enhancing capacity of their clinics so veterans can get care sooner. In cases where officials cannot expand capacity at VA centers, the Department of Veterans Affairs is "increasing the care we acquire in the community through non-VA care," Shinseki said.

(VA Approves More Private Care for Veterans, Associated Press, May 24, 2014.

So . . . government health care doesn't work? But Paul Krugman and Ezra Klein said socialized medicine does work! Were they mistaken???

"If liberals want to toast the Veterans medical system as an example of government-run health care done right, they are going to have to seriously grapple with its tragic failures."

Liberals Touted Veterans Affairs Hospitals as Evidence Government-Run Health Care Works, Philip Klein, Washington Examiner,  May 22, 2014).