The Future Role of the VA Hospital System: A National Health-Policy Dilemma

Abstract

IN response to a Congressional mandate contained in federal legislation (PL 93–82 of 1973) the Committee on Health Care Resources in the Veterans Administration of the National Research Council made an extensive study of the Veterans Administration health-care system. The scope of the charge to the committee was detailed in correspondence with the appropriate bodies of Congress, the VA and the National Academy of Sciences. The committee report was submitted by the National Academy of Sciences to the Congress and the Veterans Administration in June, 1977.¹ The study was conducted during an era when important policy changes in health-care delivery . . .