About the Book

Phil Longman delivers a shocking message about America's healthcare system. Despite its expense, our system fails to provide appropriate, evidence-based medicine for half the patients it treats. A proven solution has arrived: the long-maligned, reinvented Veterans Health Administration, which is now the highest quality provider in the United States. Best Care Anywhere uses the VHA turnaround to illustrate deeper lessons for the U.S. health care system as a whole. The book concludes with a realistic "battle plan" to apply the lessons of the VHA turnaround to America's massive health care sector, which now accounts for 14 percent of the nation's Gross Domestic Product but lags other nations in health outcomes and effectiveness.