A good editorial on military medical. I was a financial analyst on the initial TRICARE for Southern California back in 1995, so I saw the baby born.
The military medical was contracted out under Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney. The first contractor was Aetna, then Foundation; at that time it had become a retirement plan for the Department of Defense health affair officers. At Region 9, the contractor’s economist was married to the Region 9 economist, so the entire pricing/costing analysis was under a cloud, which I reported to the DOD’s inspector general, who contacted me two years later for the data.
The veterans are preferentially hired by the federal government, and may convert their military retirement to... see more at http://richardbrucecheney.com/
