Phillip Longman

Healthcare for Our Veterans

Award winning journalist and author, Phillip Longman joins host, Barbra Alexander to discuss his new book, "BEST CARE ANYWHERE: Why VA Health Care Is Better Than Yours". What is VA healthcare, who qualifies and why?

Phillip Longman, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, is an award-winning journalist and author whose work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Harvard Business Review,The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and Washington Monthly. His most recent book, The Next Progressive Era: A Blueprint for Broad Prosperity was co-authored with Ray Boshara (PoliPointPress, 2009).

He is a frequent public speaker, including addresses to the National War College, the Department of Health and Human Services, The VA, PopTech, and Fortune Magazine’s annual “Brainstorm” conference. He is frequently interviewed by foreign and domestic media including National Public Radio, the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Der Spiegel, and many others. Formerly a senior writer and deputy assistant managing editor at U.S. News & World Report, he has won numerous awards for his business and financial writing, including UCLA’s Gerald Loeb Award, and the top prize for investigative journalism from Investigative Reporters and Editors.

BEST CARE ANYWHERE: Why VA Health Care Is Better Than Yours

Barbra Alexander

6 / 21 / 2010