PE Trump is talking to CEO's of Mayo Clinic and Johns Hopkins about running the VA. On the table is letting vets use private hospitals. Good?

Here is the gist. PE Trump is speaking to the CEO's of some of the best hospitals in our country; namely the Mayo Clinic and Johns Hopkins on how to run and fix the VA Health Care system which is broken (no not saying EVERY VA hospital is broken). On the table as an option is to allow vets to utilize private hospitals outside the VA network. Vet groups such as VFW and Paralyzed Veterans of America are defending the VA and say that allowing vets to utilize private hospitals for care would "break the system" and cause vets to lose care. There are a lot of strawman arguments and politisizing on both sides of the discussion but the fact is that the VA Health Organization is broken, wastes taxpayer money, and in some instances has allowed vets to die in their care from untreated infections and negligence. One vet died and they found maggots in his wounds. (http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/12/04/4-quit-after-oklahoma-veteran-with-maggots-in-wound-dies.html).
So the question is do we continue to allow the VA to run as is or do we start to think outside the box to fix this system that, in some instances, is a veterans only recourse for care?

I don't know why PE Trump is looking at Dr. Ben Carson for Sec of HUD as opposed to Sec of VA or Surgeon General. That makes more sense to me. Who would know how to fix the healthcare problems better than a doctor?

Makes sense to me. Being retired military my family uses the military healthcare system and our primary physicians are on base providers. However for most issues that require a specialist we are sent to providers from local hospitals. Seems like the same relationship would work for the VA.