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Esper eyes $2.2 billion cut to military health care
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Esper eyes $2.2 billion cut to military health care

Yet defense officials say troops and their families could be hurt.
 

By LARA SELIGMAN and DAN DIAMOND

08/16/2020 07:00 AM EDT

Updated: 08/16/2020 10:38 AM EDT
 

Pentagon officials working on Defense Secretary Mark Esper's cost-cutting review of the department have proposed slashing military health care by $2.2 billion, a reduction that some defense officials say could effectively gut the Pentagon’s health care system during a nationwide pandemic.

The proposed cut to the military health system over the next five years is part of a sweeping effort Esper initiated last year to eliminate inefficiencies within the Pentagon’s coffers. But two senior defense officials say the effort has been rushed and driven by an arbitrary cost-savings goal, and argue that the cuts to the system will imperil the health care of millions of military personnel and their families as the nation grapples with Covid-19.

Esper and his deputies have argued that America's private health system can pick up the slack.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/16/esper-eyes-22-billion-cut-military-health-care-395578

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Re: Esper eyes $2.2 billion cut to military health care
« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2020, 06:08:09 pm »

Defense
Esper eyes $2.2 billion cut to military health care

Yet defense officials say troops and their families could be hurt.
 

By LARA SELIGMAN and DAN DIAMOND

08/16/2020 07:00 AM EDT

Updated: 08/16/2020 10:38 AM EDT
 


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Esper and his deputies have argued that America's private health system can pick up the slack.

@rangerrebew

ROFLMAO!

I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that neither Esper or anyone on his committee have ever had to stand in line to see a doctor.
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