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... Original article

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