Modern Healthcare

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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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 ...

The group called Health CEOs for Health Reform, is a partnership between six executives and the New America Foundation, a non-partisan think tank.

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Health reform is back on the agenda, and not a moment too soon. U.S. health financing is a costly mess that is putting more and more Americans and their employers at risk. Yet nothing guarantees that the burgeoning debate over healthcare will end differently from past debates. The U.S. has witnessed epic healthcare battles roughly once every 15 years -- most recently the Clinton plan of the early 1990s. Yet with the exception of the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in 1965, each of these struggles has ended in political gridlock.

The stakes are too high to allow gridlock again.