Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Best Care Anywhere: Why VA Health Care Would Work Better For Everyone
    Unavailable
    Best Care Anywhere: Why VA Health Care Would Work Better For Everyone
    Unavailable
    Best Care Anywhere: Why VA Health Care Would Work Better For Everyone
    Ebook239 pages5 hours

    Best Care Anywhere: Why VA Health Care Would Work Better For Everyone

    By Phillip Longman

    5/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED



    Phillip Longman tells the amazing story of the turnaround of the Department of Veterans Affairs health-care system from a dysfunctional, scandal-prone bureaucracy into the benchmark for high-quality medicine in the United States. Best Care Anywhere shows that vast swaths of what we think we know about health, health care, and medical economics are just plain wrong. And the book demonstrates how this extraordinarily cost-effective model, which has proven to be highly popular with veterans, can be made available to everyone. New to this edition is an analysis of how the shortcomings of both so-called Obamacare and Republican plans to privatize Medicare reinforce the need for applying the lessons of the VA. Also included are completely updated statistics and research, as well as examples of how the private sector is already beginning to learn from the VA’s example.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBerrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.
    Release dateMar 5, 2012
    ISBN9781609945824
    Unavailable
    Best Care Anywhere: Why VA Health Care Would Work Better For Everyone

    Related to Best Care Anywhere

    Related ebooks

    Medical For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Cal Thomas: The Shame Is Ours

      Jun 16, 2020

      It is a gift, as Robert Burns wrote, to see ourselves as others see us. One of those “others” is Caroline Glick, who writes on her webpage from Israel: “Americans are now expected to kneel for the Star Spangled Banner and disavow American history whi

      2 min read

    • Article

      The Nancy Pelosi Problem

      Mar 16, 2018

      The Nancy Pelosi Problem
      6 min read

    • Article

      Doctors Under Stress From Virus Say They Need Mental Health Services

      Feb 26, 2021

      CHICAGO – Chicago emergency room doctor Meeta Shah wiped down her face shield and stethoscope as she rushed from one patient to the next, some of them very sick with COVID-19, some of them dying. At home, she worried about how to keep her husband — a

      6 min read

    • Article

      Caregiving For A Loved One? How To Get The Help You Need

      Jul 14, 2019

      Your friends want to help you out when there's a family health crisis. But it can be overwhelming to manage the offers of support. Here's advice to help friends help you.

      4 min read

    • Article

      Ida Tarbell And The Magazine That Helped Break Up Standard Oil

      Mar 11, 2020

      “Citizen Reporters” tells of tenacious journalist Tarbell, and the eccentric editor S.S. McClure, who gave McClure’s magazine its clout.

      2 min read

    • Article

      Narrative Medicine for Doctors

      Oct 9, 2019

      Toby Campbell under-stands that storytelling is good medicine. As an oncologist and associate professor in the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program at UW Health—the academic medical center and health system at the University of Wisconsi

      4 min read

    • Article

      Natural Learning

      Sep 13, 2019

      Natural Learning
      5 min read

    • Article

      The Jerry Jones Photo Explains a Lot

      Dec 4, 2022

      If you’re wondering why, in professional football, so few Black coaches get hired and Black players struggle to be heard, you can learn a lot from a 65-year-old image of Jerry Jones. In a 1957 photo published late last month by The Washington Post, t

      5 min read

    Reviews for Best Care Anywhere

    5/5

    3 ratings1 review

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 5/5
      The author is a journalist who looked into the fact that the Bush Administration was not providing adequate post-theater medical care for Veterans. Many VA hospitals were old and neglected. More recently, however, the VA has become a real medical care success story. This surprise turnaround is documented by Phillip Longman in this book.The Department of Veterans Affairs health-care system was a dysfunctional, scandal-prone bureaucracy. It is now the benchmark for high-quality medicine in the United States. Even more importantly, Best Care Anywhere shows that almost everything Americans are told to believe by the media about health, health care, and medical economics is simply wrong. Our Veterans and their families now enjoy real health as a result of serious health care. The VA is now very popular with veterans. I speak from personal experience as well. The VA is what is known as a Single-Payer system. The biggest single source of high medical costs, and the fastest growing segment, is the private insurance administrative costs and profits. The CEOs are some of the richest people on the planet, they do not contribute any skills to medical care, but they remove dollars that would otherwise go to care in a Single Payer system. The VA model can be made available to everyone. New to this edition is an analysis of how the shortcomings of both so-called Obamacare and Republican plans to privatize Medicare reinforce the need for applying the lessons of the VA. Also included are completely updated statistics and research, as well as examples of how the private sector is already beginning to learn from the VA?s example.