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Volume 344:1168-1170 April 12, 2001 Number 15
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Quality of Care in the Veterans Health Administration

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To the Editor: I am writing in response to the article by Petersen et al. (Dec. 28 issue)1 on the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). For the sake of VHA patients, I hope the VHA system does measure up. But the very idea of continuing the system in today's world is like that of trying to preserve a dinosaur. Why not cover all veterans with either federal medical insurance or Medicare, without copayments or deductibles, and provide a low-cost drug benefit as well? The gains in quality — such as paperless medical records, systemic audits, better accountability, improved immunizations, cancer screening, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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