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J Gardner

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The VA on the firing line. Veterans groups oppose privatization despite a dwindling patient population, high costs.

Demographic trends raise some uncomfortable questions for the VA and Congress. For example, should American taxpayers continue financing a government-owned and -operated healthcare system that spends $17.3 billion a year and serves a shrinking population, when the government could buy the same care in the private sector? Some say the solution is to privatize the VA.

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1998 up & comers .

Modern Healthcare honors this year's "Up & Comers," 11 young healthcare executives all 40 or under who already have made their mark in the healthcare industry. "As remarkable as their achievements are today, the potential for what they may do tomorrow is staggering," says Jordan Hadelman, whose firm, Witt/Kieffer Ford, Hadelman & Lloyd, was involved in the nominating process.

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Dueling for public support. Americans go gunning for managed-care plans as they stand by their docs.

If healthcare were a movie western, Americans would costume their doctors in white hats and HMOs in black hats. They'd cast hospitals as the Wild West merchant watching the gunfight from the doorway of his shop and themselves as the frightened townspeople waiting for the smoke to clear. That's the simple version of the complex portrait of U.S. public opinion on healthcare as painted by polling firms and survey organizations.

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