Best Care Anywhere: Why VA Health Care Would Work Better For Everyone by Phillip Longman - ISBN: 9781609945176
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Once denigrated for shoddy care and antiquated systems, the VA health system has become a hallmark of excellence and technical innovation. This book uses the VA turnaround to illustrate deeper lessons for the US health care system. It shows how fee-for-service healthcare leads to more expensive, les…

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

Why VA Health Care Would Work Better For Everyone

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  • Paperback

    224 pages

  • Release Date

    1 January 2018

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Summary

“An outstanding book… documents how the VA’s system of integrative care outperforms the models used by private insurers.” -USW Blog (United Steelworkers)NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATEDPhillip 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, h…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781609945176
ISBN-10:1609945174
Author:Phillip Longman
Publisher:Berrett-Koehler
Imprint:Berrett-Koehler
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:224
Edition:3rd
Release Date:1 January 2018
Weight:292g
Dimensions:216mm x 140mm x 16mm
Series:Agency/Distributed
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Critics Review

“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

About The Author

Phillip Longman

Phillip Longman is a senior fellow at the Washington Monthly and the New America Foundation. His work on health-care reform is informed by his experience of losing his first wife, Robin, to breast cancer and is widely followed around the world.

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