Best Care Anywhere: Why VA Health Care Would Work Better For Everyone (Bk Currents Book) [Paperback]
Author: Phillip Longman | Language: English | ISBN: 1609945174 | Format: PDF, EPUB
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A Model for Health-Care Reform
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.
“This important book describes the turnaround of the VA health-care system—now widely recognized as leading the nation in terms of both quality and costs—and offers insights that will be useful to patients and policymakers alike.”
—Elliot S. Fisher, MD, Professor of Medicine and Professor of Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School
“The improvement of the VA health-care system in the past decade is one of the most impressive stories of large-scale change—and the leadership thereof—in modern times. Students of quality improvement will find lesson after lesson in this important case study.”
—Donald Berwick, MD, MPP, Professor, Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, and former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
“Phillip Longman has uncovered the biggest untold medical story of the last decade.”
—Paul Glastris, Editor in Chief, Washington Monthly
“Longman’s book is a beacon of hope.”
—Theodore Marmor, Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Management and Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Yale University
- Series: Bk Currents Book
- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers; Third Edition, Revised and Expanded edition (March 5, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1609945174
- ISBN-13: 978-1609945176
- Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #195,281 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Longman's 1st edition was excellent, but this 3rd addition, besides delivering an excellent functional and historical overview of the VA system, integrates a cogent analysis of why the Affordable Care Act of 2010 falls short of being a viable approach to solving the myriad problems inherent in our current healthcare "system" (or really, better said, our lack of a system). This book will be instructive for the interested layperson, as well as for those who are actually providing healthcare. That said, this is an easy and informative read. Longman's strength here is his full and detailed documentation, in the form of footnotes, for every stated fact; this attention to facts is quite refreshing during a time when many conversations on this subject devolve into hyperbolic rhetoric based on untruths and emotional reactivity.By RICHARD H MCCLURG
She loved the book and learned alot about the VA healthcare system and how great it really is. I wish she had a better hospital to visit though.By skd
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