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Posted on Apr 4, 2024
It's time to stop downsizing health care, the Pentagon says. This couple can't wait
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https://www.npr.org/2024/04/03/ [login to see] /pentagon-outsource-healthcare-tricare
The Pentagon has been trying to outsource the less war-related parts, says John Whitley, former acting secretary of the Army.
"We don't want to go back to the days of ... not having the trauma surgeons, the emergency medicine physicians, the critical care physicians we need, and instead having a force of pediatricians and obstetricians and family practice docs," he told NPR.
The Pentagon has been trying to outsource the less war-related parts, says John Whitley, former acting secretary of the Army.
"We don't want to go back to the days of ... not having the trauma surgeons, the emergency medicine physicians, the critical care physicians we need, and instead having a force of pediatricians and obstetricians and family practice docs," he told NPR.
It's time to stop downsizing health care, the Pentagon says. This couple can't wait
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel "I vividly remember them putting out an article in the newspaper that was like ... 'We cannot absorb your obstetrical care. We can't absorb your inpatient care. We do not have the resources to absorb the amount of care that you would then be pushing out into the community,'" says Perry.
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Good article. It is one thing for private medicine to handle small numbers of reserves or veterans for non-emergency services. It is another to cut military medicine when it is needed for active duty troops and their families.
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