Newtered - Shannon Brownlee


Respond to this Article	Washington Monthly, October 2007


	Best Care Everywhere Here's an idea: a civilian VA for the uninsured, and maybe the rest of us. By Phillip Longman Newtered Gingrich's Congress emasculated the one agency capable of controlling health care costs and improving quality. Time to reverse the procedure. By Shannon Brownlee

Phillip Longman, a Schwartz senior fellow at the New America Foundation, is author of Best Care Anywhere: Why VA Health Care Is Better Than Yours.

Shannon Brownlee is a Schwartz senior fellow at the New America Foundation and the author of Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer, from which this article is adapted.