MORE GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE: VA officials grilled over botched colonoscopies: “Lawmakers sharply criticized the Department of Veterans Affairs on Tuesday about why a national scare over botched colonoscopies earlier this year didn’t prompt stronger safeguards at the agency’s medical centers. Agency officials apologized for the continued weaknesses and told a House subcommittee that they would do better. . . . The strong reaction came as the agency’s inspector general reported that fewer than half of VA facilities selected for surprise inspections last month had proper training and guidelines in place. That was months after the VA launched a nationwide safety campaign over the discovery of errors at facilities in Georgia, Florida and Tennessee that could have exposed veterans to HIV and other infections.”

Obviously, there’s a simple solution to this problem. Fire the Inspector General!