The Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs
may be considering merging parts of their two health care programs in a move
that could alter how about 19 million military personnel, retirees, dependents
and veterans receive care.
In an announcement released Jan. 31, the Defense Health
Agency said that an initiative known as DOD VA Health Care Staffing Services
has reached the “strategy development stage.” The effort is designed to merge
the delivery of health care using facilities run by both agencies to serve the
two populations of beneficiaries in a combined fashion, according to veterans’
advocates.
“The idea in itself makes sense,” said Pat Murray, Deputy
Director of the National Legislative Service for Veterans of Foreign Wars. “But
it’s going to be a lot harder than I think they understand.”
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