A Model for Better Health Care in America? Look at the VA

A Model for Better Health Care in America? Look at the VA

Top of Mind with Julie Rose

Veterans Healthcare, Betrayed

Episode: Veterans Healthcare, Betrayed

  • Nov 9, 2018 10:00 pm
  • 50:50 mins

Guest: Suzanne Gordon, Journalist and Author of “Wounds of War: How the VA Delivers Health, Healing, and Hope to the Nation’s Veterans” The VA healthcare system has a reputation for impenetrable bureaucracy, long wait times and poor care. The VA has had problems at times, but journalist Suzanne Gordon spent five years researching the Veterans Health Administration and has concluded it’s actually providing care that’s as good – and often better - than what Medicare or the private health system in America. In fact, she argues the VA’s system of doctors, hospitals, clinics and health benefits for veterans is a model we’d do well to adopt for the rest of us. Gordon’s new book is “Wounds of War: How the VA Delivers Health, Healing and Hope to the Nation’s Veterans.”