Lawmakers Align on 3.1% Pay Raise, Efforts to Slow Cuts to Military Medical Billets
The draft House defense authorization bill also contains health and child care provisions.
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Lawmakers Seek to Slow DoD's Efforts to Slash Medical Billets, Outsource Moves
The House Appropriations Committee passed the fiscal 2020 Defense Appropriations bill 30 to 22.
Navy Hospital Ship Comfort to Deploy to Aid Venezuelan Refugees
The Navy hospital ship Comfort will deploy next month to the Caribbean and Central and South America to provide assistance.
Services Turn Focus to Warfighters as DHA Takes Over Military Hospitals
In a budget hearing on Tuesday, the services' surgeons general addressed realignment of the medical forces.
Pentagon Budget Includes Plan to Reduce Military Medical Force
"Roughly 15,000" military medical billets are slated to become civilian jobs.
Tricare Dental Plan Benefits and Coverage
The TRICARE dental plan is for dependents of active duty and guard/reserve members and their dependents.
More Than 17,000 Uniformed Medical Jobs Eyed for Elimination
The reduction will allow those billets to be repurposed as war fighters or combat-support skills to increase lethality.
US Supreme Court Asks for Government Response in Feres Case
Attorney says the justices' unique request signals interest in a military medical malpractice case.
Navy Offers What Venezuelan Regime Can't: Urgent Health Care
So far, Operation Enduring Promise 2018 has treated about 20,000 patients in Latin American countries.
US Navy Hospital Ship Stokes Tensions by Giving Venezuelan Refugees Free Care
Venezuela's ally, China, hastily dispatched its own hospital ship to the country in September, ahead of the U.S. mission.
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