Best care anywhere
Subtitle: how America's most socialized healthcare system became its finest : what the VA miracle means for you and your country
By: by Phillip Longman.
Publisher: PoliPointPress; Distributed by Publishers Group West
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Sausalito, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: United States. -- Dept. of Veterans Affairs.; Veterans -- Medical care -- United States.; Medical care -- United States.
Description: The long-maligned Veterans Health Administration has become the highest-quality healthcare provider in the United States. This encouraging change not only has benefited veterans but also provides a blueprint for salvaging America's own deeply troubled healthcare system. Best Care Anywhere shows how a government bureaucracy, working with little notice, is setting the standard for best practices and cost reduction while the private sector is lagging in both areas. Author Phillip Longman challenges conventional wisdom by explaining exactly how market forces work to lower quality and raise prices in the healthcare sector, and how U.S. medical practices have a weak basis in science. The book, expanded from a widely praised article in the Washington Monthly, mixes hard facts with author Philip Longmans' compelling human story of the loss of his wife to cancer. Part manifesto, part moving memoir, Best Care Anywhere offers new hope for addressing a major problem of contemporary society that affects all of us.
Table of contents: title: Best care, anywhere 27; title: Hitting bottom 42; title: Revenge of the Hard Hats 56; title: VistA in action 74; title: The Kizer revolution 87; title: Safety first 106; title: Who cares about quality? 122; title: When less is more. 143; title: Battle plan 167; title: Health for life 181; title: Epilogue 206.