Looking ahead to when baby boomers retire, this study clarifies the impending crises in health care, housing, and the national deficit and confronts specific national policy issues that need to be resolved

Born to Pay: The New Politics of Aging in America

Politics & Social Sciences

Longman, Phillip

Politics & Government

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

<div>Phillip Longman is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation and the author of numerous articles and books on demographics and public policy. Formerly a senior writer and editor at US News & World Report , he has written for such publications as The Atlantic Monthly , the New York Times Magazine , The New Republic , and the Wall Street Journal . He lives in Washington, D.C.</div>

The Empty Cradle: How Falling Birthrates Threaten World Prosperity and What to Do About It

Business & Money

Economics

Basic Books

An award-winning journalist explains how the growth in the culture of entitlement has led to a government insolvency, lack of family and individual responsibility, and economic decline that will eventually force Americans to embrace abandoned personal and community virtues. 20,000 first printing.

RETURN OF THRIFT: How the Collapse of the Middle Class Welfare State Will Reawaken Values in Americs

Free Press

The long-maligned Veterans Health Administration has become the highest-quality healthcare provider in the United States. This encouraging change not only has benefited veterans but also provides a blueprint for salvaging America's own deeply troubled healthcare system. "Best Care Anywhere" shows how a government bureaucracy, working with little notice, is setting the standard for best practices and cost reduction while the private sector is lagging in both areas. Author Phillip Longman challenges conventional wisdom by explaining exactly how market forces work to lower quality and raise prices in the healthcare sector, and how U.S. medical practices have a weak basis in science. The book, expanded from a widely praised article in the "Washington Monthly," mixes hard facts with author Philip Longmans' compelling human story of the loss of his wife to cancer. Part manifesto, part moving memoir, "Best Care Anywhere" offers new hope for addressing a major problem of contemporary society that affects all of us.

Best Care Anywhere: Why VA Health Care is Better Than Yours

Polipoint Pr

Progressives 100 years ago were deeply concerned about vast income inequalities, concentrated corporate power, a weak labor movement, high immigration rates, threats to small-scale producers and retailers, middle-class debt levels, environmental degradation and unsafe food, terrorism, religious fundamentalism, and the deteriorating quality of family life. Sound familiar? The Progressive Era changed America profoundly, and this book argues that modern-day progressives must return to their roots by protecting families (rather than individuals) from the social and environmental ravages of global capital. In doing so, they should also stress the importance of wide-scale ownership of propertyincluding both real estate and secure financial assetsboth to reduce inequalities of wealth and to save more Americans from what the original progressives recognized as "wage slavery."

Next Progressive Era: A Blueprint for Broad Prosperity

Education & Teaching

Boshara, Ray

Schools & Teaching

Routledge

Best Care Anywhere, 2nd Edition demonstrates how an ongoing quality revolution in the nation’s veterans hospitals provides deep lessons for reforming the U.S. health care system as a whole. The new edition is particularly timely with the winding down of the national debate over health care insurance reform, which will necessarily shift focus of reform to the practice of medicine itself. The VA, by making extensive use of electronic medical records and evidence-based medicine, has developed a model of 21st century health care that boosts safety, cost effectiveness, and patient satisfaction. And in so doing, it has proven that most of we think we know about health care is just wrong. New to this edition: • Discussion of vast changes in health care politics since 2007, and how the VA model of care fits in. • New insights on how the VA model will shape 21st century health care. • How Bush administration policies undermined many successful aspects of VA health care, and how the Obama administration is beginning to put matter right for our wounded warriors. • Updated coverage of federal information technology initiatives in health care, and the lessons provided by the VA’s “open source” software development. * New information on the continuing consequences of exposure to Agent Orange, and its deeper implications for rethinking who should have access to VA care. * A proposal for rolling out a new civilian version of the VA that now has gained political viability in light of the overall failure of other approaches to health care reform. A civilian VA is a true “public option” in health care for which Progressives and other Americans must rally.

Best Care Anywhere: Why VA Health Care Is Better Than Yours

Social Sciences

Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Phil Longman, an award - winning journalist and senior fellow at the New America Foundation, tells the compelling story of how the Veterans Administration, once notorious for dangerous, dirty and scandal - ridden hospitals, transformed itself into what is demonstrably the highest quality health care system in America. By making extensive use of electronic medi cal records and evidence - based medicine the VA has devel oped a model of 21st century health care that boosts safety, cost effectiveness, and patient satisfaction, and provides deep les sons for overhauling the U.S. health care system. Drawing on real world examples and the latest scientific research, Best Care Anywhere - now in it's second edition - is particularly with the passage of health care reform in America, offering readers powerful new ways of thinking about health care. ''Among the most important social policy books published in the last decade.'' - Ezra Klein, The Washington Post

Best Care Anywhere: Why VA Health Care Would Work Better for Everyone

Medical Books

Administration & Medicine Economics

ReadHowYouWant

Phillip Longman tells the amazing story of the turnaround of the Department of Veterans Affairs health-care system from a dysfunctional, scandal-prone bureaucracy into the benchmark for high-quality medicine in the United States. Best Care Anywhere shows that vast swaths of what we think we know about health, health care, and medical economics are just plain wrong. And the book demonstrates how this extraordinarily cost-effective model, which has proven to be highly popular with veterans, can be made available to everyone. New to this edition is an analysis of how the shortcomings of both so-called Obamacare and Republican plans to privatize Medicare reinforce the need for applying the lessons of the VA. Also included are completely updated statistics and research, as well as examples of how the private sector is already beginning to learn from the VA’s example.

Best Care Anywhere: Why VA Health Care Is Better Than Yours (Bk Currents Book)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

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