Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATEDA Model for Health-Care ReformPhillip 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...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Draws on the examples of the Veterans Health Administration to present a model for socialized medicine in America, explaining how its system is setting standards for best practices and cost reduction that significantly outperform the private sector. Original. $25,000 ad/promo.

A senior follow at the New America Foundation makes the controversial argument that low fertility rates and global aging threaten the global economy and make the industrialized nations of the West vulnerable to fundamentalism. 30,000 first printing.

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.

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