Military Health Care

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This paper explains that the development of programs to privatize military health care, in an attempt to cut costs has created much debate for the last ten years. The writer points out that the adequacy of availability for standard care as well as combat or on duty injuries and illness care is questioned all over the nation, as many individuals claim difficulty in access and high cost as barriers to receiving even the most basic care, including follow up care for injuries sustained in the line of duty. This problem is especially troubling to families left alone while a parent is serving in combat.The paper stresses that the danger of privatization is pricing soldiers, their families and veterans out of the system with co-pays and fees that exceed their ability to pay.

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"If such programs are cut, or if fees price these families out of the system, where they may have the coverage on paper but rarely use it because they cannot come up with co-pays and or deductibles to do so would be an even greater blow to the nation, and specifically to the millions of military families, living with very low compensatory wages, and previously guaranteed benefits, such as health care. If such care, loses it guarantee through budget cuts not only with the soldiers themselves be hurt, but their families will be further burdened."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Hosek, Susan D., and Gary Cecchine. Reorganizing the Military Health System: Should There Be a Joint Command?. Santa Monica, CA: Rand, 2001.
• "Relations with Non-Federal Entities Outline." Journal of Power and Ethics 2.1 (2001).
• "Veterans Gird for New Fight of Sharp Health Care Fee Rises." The Washington Times 12 Mar. 2007: A07.
• Wysen, Kristen, Cynthia Pernice, and Trish Riley. "How Public Health Insurance Programs for Children Work." The Future of Children 13.1 (2003): 170.

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