Title: Best care anywhere
Subtitle: Why VA Health Care is Better Than Yours
First published: 2007
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.
Subjects: Medical care, United States, United States. Dept. of Veterans Affairs, Veterans, Veterans Hospitals, Quality of Health Care, Delivery of Health Care, United States. Veterans Administration, United States. Department of Veterans Affairs
Places: United States
LC classification: UB369 .L66 2007