The Battle for Veterans’ Healthcare : : Dispatches from the Front Lines of Policy Making and Patient Care / / Suzanne Gordon.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Gordon, Suzanne,
• MitwirkendeR: Kizer, Kenneth W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (124 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; FOREWORD --; PREFACE --; SECTION ONE. THE VA AND ITS CRITICS --; SECTION TWO. CONGRESS AND THE COMMISSION --; SECTION THREE. THE UNKNOWN STORY --; EPILOGUE. TRUMP AND THE VHA --; APPENDIX A --; NOTES --; ABOUT THE AUTHOR
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501714573; 9783110606553
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501714573
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Suzanne Gordon.

In The Battle for Veterans' Healthcare, award-winning author Suzanne Gordon takes us to the front lines of federal policymaking and healthcare delivery, as it affects eight million Americans whose military service makes them eligible for Veterans Health Administration (VHA) coverage.Gordon’s collected dispatches provide insight and information too often missing from mainstream media reporting on the VHA and from Capitol Hill debates about its future. Drawing on interviews with veterans and their families, VHA staff and administrators, health care policy experts and Congressional decision makers, Gordon describes a federal agency under siege that nevertheless accomplishes its difficult mission of serving men and women injured, in myriad ways, while on active duty.The Battle for Veterans’ Healthcare is an essential primer on VHA care and a call to action by veterans, their advocacy organizations, and political allies. Without lobbying efforts and broader public understanding of what’s at stake, a system now functioning far better than most private hospital systems may end up looking more like them, to the detriment of patients and providers alike.