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16 January 2008 04:37:13 PM

Examining Veterans' Health Care

Between 1994 and 1999, Kenneth W. Kizer, MD, MPH, led a dramatic turnaround of the Veterans health care system. Today, in study after study, the VA emerges as an exemplar of best practices in patient safety, disease management, evidence-based medicine, electronic medical records and customer service. Both Senators Clinton and Obama, as well as a number of jounalists and academics, have recently pointed to the VA health care system as a model for national healthcare reform, and a December 2007 Congressional Budget Office interim report suggests VA may offer lessons to other public sector, as well as private sector systems.But there is a very real danger that the system could unravel due to a confluence of political and financial pressures in the not-distant future. With the enormous federal financial challenges predicted by GAO and CBO for the next decade, what is really needed to treat the hundreds of thousands of new wounded warriors coming to VA hospitals out of Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the millions of Vietnam, World War II and other veterans who currently rely on VA healthcare?

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