May 11, 2007 3:05PM 

# Who Should Run the Veterans’ Health Administration? 

By [Michael F. Cannon](https://www.cato.org/people/michael-f-cannon) 

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Ezra Klein [writes](http://ezraklein.typepad.com/blog/2007/05/the_vas_spin.html) about the [Veterans’ Health Administration ](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8140)(VA):

> The VA system, like many other critical government departments, isn’t being given *near* the resources to deal with the coming influx \[of Iraq veterans\], and the consequences will be disastrous. This isn’t a structural problem in the VA, but in our government.…

Good point. If only our government-run health care systems could be run by … well … someone else.

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[Defense and Foreign Policy](https://www.cato.org/defense-foreign-policy), [General](https://www.cato.org/general), [Health Care](https://www.cato.org/health-care) 

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