tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30378636594387649972011-04-28T01:23:40.178-07:00amandafannoreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037863659438764997.post-5027269244075176062011-04-18T04:14:00.000-07:002011-04-18T04:14:03.189-07:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://blogs.mcall.com/penn_ave/images/2008/03/31/dick_cheney.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://blogs.mcall.com/penn_ave/images/2008/03/31/dick_cheney.jpg" /></a></div><h2 style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 1.8em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br /></h2><h2 style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 1.8em; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">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.</h2><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px;">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.</div><div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px;">The veterans are preferentially hired by the federal government, and may convert their military retirement to... see more at http://richardbrucecheney.com/</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3037863659438764997-502726924407517606?l=richardcheney.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>amandafannoreply@blogger.com0