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.
- ISBN13 9780982417157
- Publish Date 16 April 2010 (first published 1 January 2007)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 14 February 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Berrett-Koehler
- Edition 2nd edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224
- Language English