CAN MILITARY DISCIPLINE SAVE THE VETERANS ADMINISTRATION? Congress must decide soon whether to renew, expand or end the five-year-old Lovell Federal Health Center in North Chicago. It’s a jointly operated hospital that is both staffed and serves veterans and active-duty military personnel.

Among other successes, the center sees patients within one day of their requests for appointments – quite a contrast to the proliferating VA hospital horror stories of vets dying while waiting to see doctors, according to Luke Rosiak of the Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group.

But here’s the bad news, Rosiak reports: “It is unclear to what extent the current Congress will embrace the larger vision set into motion years ago. Sen. Johnny Isakson , chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, refused to say whether he even knows about the massive experiment, much less what his opinion on replicating it nationwide it might be.”