VA Health Reform

VII. Key Issues: Regulation & Reform >> C. Health Reform >> Components of Health Reform >> Public Sector Programs >> VA Health Reform (last updated 7.6.16)

Topic Outline

1 VA Health Reform Proposals
2 Resources
- 2.1 Organizations
- 2.2 Reports

VA Health Reform Proposals

Casey Quinn and Paul Keckley. The Veterans Advantage Program: A Private Solution To The VA Health System’s Problems. Forbes.com (7.15.14).
Wall Street Journal (7.6.16). The Department of Veterans Affairs health system should get a wholesale overhaul that includes shuttering some facilities and making permanent a system that lets the nation’s 22 million veterans get care from private doctors, according to a congressionally created advisory commission [Commission on Care]…The commission is recommending that the VA health-care system set up community networks staffed in part by independent providers that are credentialed by the agency. Facilities that have been identified for closing should be immediately sold or used for new purposes, according to the report.

Resources

Organizations

House Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, Subcommittee on Health.
Office of Disabled American Veterans. Advocacy group.

Reports

GAO. VA Health Care: Challenges in Budget Formulation and Issues Surrounding the Proposal for Advance Appropriations. GAO-09-664T, April 29, 2009. [Summary (HTML)][Highlights Page (PDF)][Full Report (PDF, 14 pages)]
GAO. Recovering Servicemembers: DOD and VA Have Made Progress to Jointly Develop Required Policies but Additional Challenges Remain. GAO-09-540T, April 29, 2009. [Summary (HTML)][Highlights Page (PDF)][Full Report (PDF, 35 pages)].
GAO. VA Health Care: Challenges in Budget Formulation and Execution. GAO-09-459T, March 12, 2009. [Summary (HTML)][Highlights Page (PDF)][Full Report (PDF, 17 pages)]
GAO. Traumatic Brain Injury: Better DOD and VA Oversight Can Help Ensure More Accurate, Consistent, and Timely Decisions for the Traumatic Injury Insurance Program. GAO-09-108, January 29, 2009. [Summary (HTML)][Highlights Page (PDF)][Full Report (PDF, 45 pages)][Recommendations (HTML)]
GAO. VA Health Care: Long-Term Care Strategic Planning and Budgeting Need Improvement. GAO-09-145 January 23, 2009. [Summary (HTML)][Highlights Page (PDF)][Full Report (PDF, 41 pages)]
GAO. VA Health Care: Improved Staffing Methods and Greater Availability of Alternate and Flexible Work Schedules Could Enhance the Recruitment and Retention of Inpatient Nurses. GAO-09-17, October 24, 2008. [Summary (HTML)][Highlights Page (PDF)][Full Report (PDF, 54 pages)][Recommendations (HTML)]
GAO. VA Health Care: Ineffective Controls over Medical Center Billings and Collections Limit Revenue from Third-Party Insurance Companies. GAO-08-675, June 10, 2008. [Summary (HTML)][Highlights Page (PDF)][Full Report (PDF, 63 pages)][Recommendations (HTML)]
GAO. VA Health Care:Recruitment and Retention Challenges and Efforts to Make Salaries Competitive for Nurse Anesthetists. GAO-08-647T, April 9, 2008. [Summary (HTML)][Highlights Page (PDF)][Full Report (PDF, 16 page]
GAO. VA Health Care: Additional Efforts to Better Assess Joint Ventures Needed.GAO-08-399, March 28, 2008. Summary (HTML)][Highlights Page (PDF)][Full Report (PDF, 48 pages)][Recommendations (HTML)]