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...Stephen J. Williams; Donald W. Belcher; Ira Mogcovice; Thomas S. Inui Criticisms of the Veterans Administration health care system have centered in part on the ability of the system to reallocate resources in response to the changing needs of veterans. VA hospitals use traditional budgeting...

... of the Veterans Administration (VA) medical system to explore problems of defining, detecting and correcting such errors when government directly delivers care. It probes the complex blend of errors of liberality and stringency that appeared to be present in the VA during the 1970s, the formidable barriers...

...Michael Lipsky; Lawrence McCray; Jeffrey Prottas; Harvey Sapolsky The probable adoption of a national health insurance system in the near future makes the Veterans Administration's health care program vulnerable to change. The last major turning point in the program occurred at the end of World War...

...Hanna Yakubi; Brian Gac; Dorie E. Apollonio Abstract Context: From 1999 to 2018 the opioid epidemic claimed more than 500,000 lives in the United States. Military veterans and older adults were particularly affected; veterans' deaths attributed to opioid use increased by 65% from 2010 to 2016...

.... , Krystal John H. , and Pietrzak Robert H. . 2016 . “ High Burden of Subthreshold DSM-5 Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in US Military Veterans .” World Psychiatry 15 , no. 2 : 185 – 86 . https://doi.org/10.1002/wps.20313 . Scott Wilbur J. 2004 . Vietnam Veterans since the War...

...Austin B. Frakt; Steven D. Pizer; Ann M. Hendricks Medicare and the Veterans Health Administration (VA) both finance large outpatient prescription drug programs, though in very different ways. In the ongoing debate on how to control Medicare spending, some suggest that Medicare should negotiate...

...Rosemary Stevens The federal hospital system for veterans, established in the aftermath of World War I in a context of decentralization, privatization, and rejection of compulsory health insurance, seems an anomaly in health care policy-making. It is actually a good case of how the federal...

... by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health under award R01 HL085631. R.R.H. was additionally supported by the NHLBI Supplement to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research of the NIH under award 3 R01 HL085631-02S2 and through the Veterans Affairs Associated...

... by elderly persons: Medicare, Medicaid, Veterans Administration health care, and subsidized health insurance from either current or former employers. We find that increased cost sharing is likely to fall most heavily on those elderly least likely to afford it: the poor and near-poor elderly who have only...

... of services. While the two are interrelated, wage policies must be considered independently. This article describes the network which determines how nurse salaries are set: the relationship between the private sector, the general schedule and the Veterans' Administration. The effects of this system...

..., on a separate track, the state and the Department of Veterans Affairs successfully pursued a plan to jointly build replacement hospitals. © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Funding for this project was provided by the Tulane University Research Enhancement Fund. Adams Management Services...

... environmental factors are varied: they include families living above the buried chemicals at Love Canal, Vietnam veterans exposed to Agent Orange, ranchers who pastured their sheep downwind from the Nevada Test Site, and soldiers exposed to radioactive fallout while participating in ma- neuvers near...

..., such as the Veterans Ad- ministration hospital system. Disclaimers might be raised that, while these agencies comprise an important piece of the public health pie, much of the Book Reviews 969 care subsidized by government obviously gets furnished in less bureau...

... these problems? Perhaps surprisingly, a key factor is that Dutch policy- makers completely underestimated physician opposition and resistance to the new regime. Austin Frakt and colleagues then argue that the Veterans Health Admin- istration here in the United States ought to form a Medicare prescription...

.... The strategy backfired: a contaminant in Agent Orange known as dioxin seems to have caused severe health problems for the thousands of soldiers exposed to it, as well as for their wives and children. In 1978, many veterans and their families brought a giant class action suit against the manu...

... of Veterans Affairs and an assistant professor of health policy and management at the Boston University School of Public Health. Dr. Frakt’s research interests include the policy, utilization, and financing of public health care programs, with a focus on VA and Medicare drug policy. His recent...

.... Bauman, R. E. 1994. Seventy Years of Federal Government Health Care: A Timely Look at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Cato Policy Analysis No. 207. April 27. www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa207.html . Benoit, B. 2004 . Germany Seeks to Fix Its Flawed Federal Constitution. Financial Times...

..., M. Kosinski, and B. Gandek. 1993 . Health Survey Manual and Interpretation Guide. Boston: Nimrod Press. Wenzel , S. L. , L. Bakhtiar, N. H. Caskey, and E. Hardie. 1995 . Homeless Veterans’ Utilization of Medical, Psychiatric, and Substance Abuse Services. Medical Care 33 ( 11 ): 1132...

... evaluations in reducing emergency room visits and hospital stays along with homelessness (National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine 2018). A counterfactual to the CoC system that may provide insight to waivers responses to homelessness is the Veterans Administration (VA). In a manner...

... the only ones who had the expertise to effectively navigate their systems. Chapter 4 delves into how government procurement failed in achieving the desired outcomes for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) with 'solutions' that only work in the particular way that was specified to the vendor...