Wartime Medical Care: Aligning Sound Requirements with New Combat Care
Approaches Is Key to Restructuring Force (Testimony, 03/30/95,
GAO/T-NSIAD-95-129).

The Defense Department's (DOD) medical system costs about $15 billion
annually and employs about 227,000 active duty and reserve personnel.
Recent legislation required DOD to determine (1) the size and the
composition of the military medical system needed to support U.S. forces
during a war and (2) any adjustments needed for cost-effective delivery
of medical care to covered beneficiaries during peacetime.  The
resulting DOD study challenged the Cold War assumption that all medical
personnel employed during peacetime are needed for wartime and
questioned whether U.S. military medical forces should be reduced to
only those needed for wartime.  This testimony provides GAO's overall
views on and analysis of the study.

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 REPORTNUM:  T-NSIAD-95-129
     TITLE:  Wartime Medical Care: Aligning Sound Requirements with New 
             Combat Care Approaches Is Key to Restructuring
             Force
      DATE:  03/30/95
   SUBJECT:  Health services administration
             Military hospitals
             Defense contingency planning
             Military operations
             Health care personnel
             Reductions in force
             Emergency preparedness
             Health resources utilization
             Physicians
             Warfare
IDENTIFIER:  National Disaster Medical System
             
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