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A(nother) public option | Tulsa World

August 30, 2009
Phillip Longman, the author of "The Best Care Anywhere: Why VA Health Care is Better Than Yours," recounts in a 2005 Washington Monthly article the horrific ...

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Why the Public Option Works | MSNBC's Countdown with Keith Olbermann

July 28, 2009

Our next guest is Philip Longman, whose book "The Best Care Anywhere: Why V.A. Health Care is Better Than Yours" explores in details, if I might coin a phrase, why the V.A. health care is better than yours?

Thanks for joining me tonight. Phil, can you explain what the V.A.`s government-run health care plan is and why it works?

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Code Red

  • By
  • Phillip Longman,
  • New America Foundation
July 15, 2009 |

The central contention of Barack Obama's vision for health care reform is straightforward: that our health care system today is so wasteful and poorly organized that it is possible to lower costs, expand access, and raise quality all at the same time--and even have money left over at the end to help pay for other major programs, from bank bailouts to high-speed rail.

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The Return to Yeomanry

  • By
  • Phillip Longman,
  • New America Foundation
June 22, 2009 |

Yeomanry--small-scale production centered on a self-sufficient family unit--has been the dream of all manner of social philosophers from Thomas Jefferson to Pope Leo XIII. But until recently, real-life yeomen could be and were dismissed-often violently. Joseph Stalin, for example, made short work of Eastern Europe's land-holding peasant class. Soon after, on the expanding frontiers of America's 1950s suburbia, zoning boards gave the nod to strip malls and big-box stores while outlawing almost all traditional forms of home production.

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How to Prepare for the End of Social Security | U.S. News & World Report

June 16, 2009
... fastest-growing poverty group in the United States...so we're going to have to spend a lot of money on the elderly," says Phillip Longman, author of Born to Pay: The New Politics of Aging in America and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
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Few Hospitals Go Paperless Using Free VA Software | Boston Globe

May 4, 2009
Phillip Longman, a fellow at the New America Foundation and author of "Best Care Anywhere," a book about the Veterans Administration's quality-of-care revolution, said VistA is an unrecognized national resource. "It's really insane that we have a fully ...
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The Empty Cradle | PBS

April 23, 2009

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Obama and the Government Can Save Detroit, If History Is Any Indicator

  • By
  • Phillip Longman,
  • New America Foundation
April 1, 2009 |

It has become an axiom of American politics that government will always and everywhere screw up if it gets hands-on control of a private industry. In reporting President Obama's big plans for General Motors and Chrysler on Tuesday, even the nominally liberal and learned New York Times bought into the notion, observing that, "In the past, the United States government had briefly nationalized steel makers and tried to run the railroads, with little success."

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The Next Progressive Era

April 1, 2009

The Next Progressive Era provides a blueprint for a re-empowered progressive movement and describes its implications for American families, work, health, food, and savings.

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Washington's Turnaround Artists

  • By
  • Phillip Longman,
  • New America Foundation
March 31, 2009 |

The massive corporate bailouts that Washington is undertaking as a result of the economic crisis have left most of us feeling deeply nervous. It’s not just the price tag, measured in incomprehensible trillions. It’s also the fear that the problems of the financial and auto industries may be so deep and so tangled that no one can fix them--and certainly not a bunch of politicians and bureaucrats in Washington.

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Government and Turning Around Companies | WTOP

March 31, 2009
Phillip Longman, Research Director of New America's Next Social Contract Initiaitve and co-author of The Next Progressive Era discusses President Obama's recent rejection of GM and Chrysler's turnaround plans. Link to audio
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Headed Toward Extinction

  • By
  • Phillip Longman,
  • New America Foundation
March 24, 2009 |

World population will hit 7 billion by 2012, according to a recent United Nations report. Given that we just hit the 6 billion mark in October 1999, it is easy to conclude that there are just too many people in the world. How are we ever going to overcome global warming, feed the masses, get that beachfront property, let alone find parking, if the population keeps jumping by nearly one billion per decade?

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US Needs Pact Based on Family | Washington Times

March 14, 2009
America's society is -- and always has been -- completely dependent "on both the quantity and quality of other people's children," say Phillip Longman and David Gray, who study work and family issues at the New America Foundation think tank. ...
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GAO: Pentagon Health Records Don't Compute | Mother Jones

March 13, 2009
Instead, much of the sharing involves what are essentially electronic versions of paper documents, rather than fully sortable and analyzable information databases.
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American Family Needs Some Help | Washington Times

March 7, 2009

The problem is this -- America's "social contract" has gotten wildly out of balance, says Phillip Longman, senior fellow at the New America Foundation think tank...

The next generation is already "highly encumbered by poverty, family break-up, a rising national debt," Mr. Longman and David Gray write in their November report, "A Family-Based Social Contract."

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VistA Architects Lament Move from Homegrown EHR | Modern Healthcare

February 3, 2009
Author Phillip Longman is aghast at the Veterans Affairs Department’s decision. A research director at the New America Foundation, Longman was so inspired by what he found in reporting for a magazine article about the VA’s health system, he went on to write a book about it, Best Care Anywhere: Why VA Health Care is Better Than Yours. Contracting out the laboratory system is merely a symptom of a larger ailment at the VA, he said...

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Rewiring the VA | Modern Healthcare

February 2, 2009
Author Phillip Longman, however, is aghast at the VA’s decision. A research director at the New America Foundation, Longman was so inspired by what he found in reporting for a magazine article about the VA’s health system ...
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Steel Wheel Interstates

January 30, 2009

This proposal offers dramatic improvements in highway safety and public health, as well as much reduced highway maintenance and construction costs. It will also significantly reduce energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, traffic jams, and shipping costs while providing significant short- and long-term economic stimulus. If fully implemented, it could get as many as 83 percent of all long-haul trucks off our nation's highways by 2030, reduce carbon emissions by 39 percent and oil consumption by 15 percent. Call it the "Back on Tracks" project.

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Railroads Seek More Tax Breaks For Investment | CNNMoney.com

January 28, 2009
"This is an opportunity to do something truly dramatic," said Phillip Longman , a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. ...
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Back on Tracks: Phillip Longman's "Steel Wheel Interstate" Proposal

January 21, 2009

Washington, DC -- In a just-published cover story for the Washington Monthly, Phillip Longman proposes an idea that would make driving safer and more pleasant, reduce highway repair costs, mitigate the need to build or expand Interstates, d

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Back on Tracks

  • By
  • Phillip Longman,
  • New America Foundation
January 13, 2009 |

Six days before Thanksgiving, a truck driver heading south on Interstate 81 through Shenandoah County, Virginia,ploughed his tractor trailer into a knot of cars that had slowed on the rain-slicked highway. The collision killed an eighty-year-old woman and her one- and four-year-old grandchildren, and brought traffic to a standstill along a ten-mile stretch of road for the better part of the afternoon.

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New America Foundation Advances Community Bank | Credit Union Times

December 11, 2008
The New America Foundation, a Washington think tank that describes itself as “nonpartisan and post-partisan,” has proposed a plan to capitalize community banks and credit unions as part of the national reaction to the current financial crises. ... Outside Article
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New America Video: Community Banks to the Financial Rescue

December 10, 2008

Today, with the world's system of anonymous high finance in crisis, small-scale community banks, thrifts, and credit unions -- all regarded until recently as vestigial players in a new world of global consumer finance -- are setting an important example. If federal policies were in place to provide proper support to small-scale financial institutions, Washington could do a lot to alleviate the country's most serious economic problems.

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Transcript: Social Policy After the Economic Crisis

December 5, 2008
NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION HOLDS A CONFERENCE
ON SOCIAL POLICY AFTER THE ECONOMIC PROBLEMS

DECEMBER 5, 2008

SPEAKERS: MICHAEL CALABRESE,
VICE PRESIDENT, NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION

LEN NICHOLS, DIRECTOR,
HEALTH POLICY PROGRAM, NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION

MAYA MACGUINEAS, DIRECTOR, FISCAL POLICY PROGRAM,
NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION, PRESIDENT,
COMMITTEE FOR A RESPONSIBLE FEDERAL BUDGET

MARK IWRY,
NONRESIDENT SENIOR FELLOW, BROOKINGS INSTITUTION

DAVID GRAY,
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A Family-Based Social Contract

  • By
  • Phillip Longman,
  • David Gray,
  • New America Foundation
November 25, 2008
Executive Summary

Americans instinctively revere the family as an institution that helps facilitate all other aspects of life. The family fosters attachments across generations, provides a nurturing environment in which to raise children, and is a means of transmitting values from one generation to the next. It is the foundation upon which our social contract has been built.

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