{"id":103870,"date":"2020-08-18T09:00:17","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=103870"},"modified":"2020-08-17T18:41:47","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T22:41:47","slug":"secdef-esper-said-to-be-eyeing-2-2b-cut-to-military-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=103870","title":{"rendered":"SecDef Esper said to be eyeing $2.2B cut to military health"},"content":{"rendered":"

Politico<\/a> has everyone all concerned that our active military folks will be without health care, that the sudden inrush of military personnel into civilian medical providers will have all civilian’s quality of care go down, and will set the country on a path of doom for the next pandemic.<\/p>\n

Secretary of Defense Esper, who President Trump recently said he’s considered firing (to be fair, Trump also said he “considers firing everybody<\/a>“), has been on a cost savings crusade. His mandates have been to find places to cut bureaucracy and wasteful spending. Part of this review has undertaken a review of the military healthcare system.<\/p>\n

Politico cites one defense department official,<\/p>\n

the cuts will be “conditions-based and will only be implemented to the extent that the [military health system] can continue to maintain our beneficiaries access to quality care, be it through our military health care facilities or with our civilian health care provider partners.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Forget that little tidbit though because they then go on a wild ride of speculation, conjecture, and Chicken Little predictions that make it seem like active duty military will receive subpar care in the future.<\/p>\n

If I had been consulted, which I wasn’t in an epic lapse of judgement on the DoD’s part, I’d have suggested that the department could save at least twice that $2.2B amount if their doctors didn’t prescribe Motrin for\u00a0everything<\/em> on the first three visits for a condition.<\/p>\n

Read the article here; Politico<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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