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Best Care Anywhere: Why VA Health Care is Better Than Yours
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 362.1086970973
EAN: 9780977825301
ISBN: 0977825302
Label: Polipoint Press
Manufacturer: Polipoint Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 159
Publication Date: January 01, 2007
Publisher: Polipoint Press
Studio: Polipoint Press
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Editorial Review:
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.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Outstanding!
This book should be mandatory reading for every member of the U. S. Congress! All heads of the major media network news departments should also read it.
Rating: - Insightful and right on target
Philip Longman makes the case that current U.S. healthcare is a fragmented, market driven system that lags behind much of the industrialized world in both quality and access of healthcare. According to Longman, the problem with our healthcare system is that it isn't really a system and that it doesn't reward the one thing that it should - health improvement. In fact, he offers proof that in the U.S. doctors and hospitals are rewarded for providing treatment, but not necessarily providing health to ... Read More
Rating: - Well Worth Reading
Best Care Anywhere is well-researched and well-written. It clearly shows us why our health care "system" is costly and sometimes dangerous, and it gives some great ideas about how it can be fixed.
Rating: - Fantastic Book
I really enjoyed reading this excellent summary of the changes that have taken place at the VA hospitals and how their successes might be duplicated in the private sector. Overall an illuminating portrait of a system that went from barely adequate to outstanding and how integration of medical informatics and dedication to preventive medicine made it happen.
Rating: - Must Read
This was a truly interesting book that is a 'must read' for those who are looking for alternative national solutions to our healthcare situation. Another related book of interest is "Medical Informatics 20/20" available on Amazon
Medical Informatics 20/20: Quality And Electronic Health Records Through Collaboration, Open Solutions, And Innovation
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