1. VA Watchdog dot Org - VA NEWS FLASH - 09-27-2007 #4 -- OPINION: BEST CARE EVERYWHERE -- New America Foundation proposes a civilian VA for the uninsured, and maybe the rest of us.nf092707-4.htm
... rest of us. For more about the author, PhillipLongman, use the VA Watchdog search engine... ...yourvabenefits.org/ sessearch.php?q=phillip +longman&op=ph S tory here... ... the Uninsured, and Maybe the Rest of Us By PhillipLongman New America Foundation Back in July, while trying to... http://www.vawatchdog.org/07/nf07/nfSEP07/nf092707-4.htm
... scratch is going the other way. PhillipLongman (right), a senior fellow... http://www.vawatchdog.org/08/nf08/nfAPR08/nf042408-3.htm
3. VA Watchdog dot Org - VA NEWS FLASH - 05-13-2007 #6 -- KOREAN WAR VETERAN TREATED WITH BANDAGES AND RED TAPE -- Proving eligibility frustrates veterans and delays care as officials brace for more claims.nf051307-6.htm
... the VA was built to handle, said PhillipLongman, author of "Best Care Anywhere:... http://www.vawatchdog.org/07/nf07/nfMAY07/nf051307-6.htm
... support planned quality improvements to patient care.' Author PhillipLongman, however, is aghast at the VA's... http://www.vawatchdog.org/09/nf09/nffeb09/nf020309-1.htm
... thousands of Vietnam vets with Agent Orange related diseases have been made to suffer without VA health care. By PhillipLongman http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/fea tures/2010/1001.longman.html... http://www.vawatchdog.org/10/nf10/nffeb10/nf021610-2.htm
6. VA Watchdog dot Org - VA NEWS FLASH - 03-12-2007 #3 -- BEST PRACTICES -- Unlike the Army's Walter Reed hospital, the VA hospital system is ranked, by many measures, as the best in the country.nf031207-3.htm
... the sort of care offered by Medicare but even the best civilian healthcare plans. PhillipLongman, a fellow at the New America Foundation and author of the forthcoming book " ... 8 percent, in the VA system it's 0.003 percent. PhillipLongman argues that it's not in spite of the fact that the VA is... http://www.vawatchdog.org/07/nf07/nfMAR07/nf031207-3.htm
... been easy and vastly cheaper if the Pentagon had simply used Vista in the first place. In April, PhillipLongman, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and author of Best Care Anywhere: Why VA Health Care... http://www.vawatchdog.org/08/nf08/nfsep08/nf091608-1.htm
8. VA Watchdog dot Org - VA NEWS FLASH - 03-16-2007 #9 -- UNLIKE WALTER REED, THE VA'S HOSPITALS WORK -- Opinion from Jonathan V. Last of The Philadelphia Inquirer.nf031607-9.htm
... Reed, the VA system is a model of efficient care. This was not always the case. As PhillipLongman explains in his forthcoming book on the VA system, "Best Care Anywhere," that system was born... http://www.vawatchdog.org/07/nf07/nfMAR07/nf031607-9.htm
... take the lead in electronic record-keeping and other innovations that reduce costs, ensure effective treatment and help prevent medical errors. Moreover, the VHA, as PhillipLongman put it in The Washington Monthly, "has nearly a lifetime relationship with its patients." As a result, it "actually has an incentive to invest... http://www.vawatchdog.org/old newsflashes JAN 06/newsflash01-30-2006-2.htm
... U.S. " subtitled, "How Veterans Affairs transformed itself -- and what it means for the rest of us." *That same year PhillipLongman's book came out, titled " Best Care Anywhere: Why VA Health Care is Better Than Yours " Yet since then most of what we have heard... http://www.vawatchdog.org/10/nf10/nfjul10/nf070210-2.htm
