Stories like that undermine pushes for government funded healthcare. Private sector companies will do anything they can to hide things like this, just like government organizations will. The difference is they don't have the level of immunity from prosecution and regulation that government organizations seem to always have.

I spent a few years of my early career working on software in US VA hospitals, in between contracts in Intel space, when working for Booz Allen (US defense contractor). The managers and executives at the VA were a particularly awful bunch. It's hard to emphasize how warped some of these bureaucrats are. The lack of accountability was breathtaking, along with the wanton obstruction of my work (project to better integrate VA and Military Health System to ease transitioning veterans).