“How To Restore Order, Meet Veterans’ Medical Needs
Fixing the VA’s problem won’t be easy. But I believe a three-part solution exists. I not only saw it in action when I was at Stanford, I led Kaiser Permanente through many of these same changes during my time as CEO of the nation’s largest medical group.
- Invest. Like the population at large, our veterans are living longer. But their devastating battlefield injuries, combined with their rising costs of their treatments, require a significantly higher investment in VA medical care than exists today. There’s no way around it.
Congress will have to accept this reality in future budgets or take ownership for the access problems and the delays in…” Read the full article here.
Source: 3 Ways To Fix The VA Amid Ongoing Scandals – By Robert Pearl, May 8, 2018. Forbes.
