The VA Health Care System: An Unrecognized National Safety Net

Health Affairs

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 200-204

  Wilson, Nancy J ^a   Kizer, Kenneth W ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INSURANCE; LEGAL ASPECT; MORBIDITY; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VETERAN;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; MEDICAL INDIGENCY; MORBIDITY; SOCIAL WELFARE; UNITED STATES; VETERANS; VETERANS DISABILITY CLAIMS;

EID: 0346477657     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.16.4.200     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. 1992 National Survey of Veterans (Washington: Department of Veterans Affairs, 1994).
2. K.W. Kizer, Vision for Change: A Plan to Restructure the Veterans Health Administration (Washington: Department of Veterans Affairs, 1995); K.W. Kizer, "The Changing Face of the Veterans Affairs Health Care System," Minnesota Medicine (February 1997): 24-28; and K.W. Kizer, "Transforming the Veterans Health Care System: The 'New VA'," Journal of the American Medical Association 275, no. 14 (1996): 1069.
3. K.W. Kizer, Vision for Change: A Plan to Restructure the Veterans Health Administration (Washington: Department of Veterans Affairs, 1995); K.W. Kizer, "The Changing Face of the Veterans Affairs Health Care System," Minnesota Medicine (February 1997): 24-28; and K.W. Kizer, "Transforming the Veterans Health Care System: The 'New VA'," Journal of the American Medical Association 275, no. 14 (1996): 1069.
4. K.W. Kizer, Vision for Change: A Plan to Restructure the Veterans Health Administration (Washington: Department of Veterans Affairs, 1995); K.W. Kizer, "The Changing Face of the Veterans Affairs Health Care System," Minnesota Medicine (February 1997): 24-28; and K.W. Kizer, "Transforming the Veterans Health Care System: The 'New VA'," Journal of the American Medical Association 275, no. 14 (1996): 1069.
5. Veterans Equitable Resource Allocation System Briefing Booklet (Washington: Department of Veterans Affairs, March 1997).
6. "New Means Test Thresholds - 1997," VHA Directive 96-076 (20 December 1996).
7. Kizer, Vision for Change.
8. K.W. Kizer, Prescription for Change: The Guiding Principles and Strategic Objectives Underlying the Transformation of the Veterans Healthcare System (Washington: Department of Veterans Affairs, 1996).
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10. J. Sunshine, interview with N.J. Wilson, "A New Approach to Quality in VA," Federal Practitioner (Part 1) (May 1996): 59-60, and (Part 2) (June 1996): 56-57.
11. N.J. Wilson, "VA Performance Agreements: Changing VA Performance," SGIM Newsletter (May 1997).
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13. N.J. Wilson and L. Kazis, "Health Status of Veterans: Physical and Mental Component Summary Scores (SF-36V)," 1996 National Survey of Ambulatory Care Patients Executive Report (Washington: Department of Veterans Affairs, February 1997).
14. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Management, FY 1998 Budget Submission (Washington: Department of Veterans Affairs, February 1997).
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16. The Veterans Health Care Eligibility Reform Act of 1996, Public Law 104-262 (March 1997).