Wartime Medical Care: Aligning Sound Requirements with New Combat Care Approaches Is Key to Restructuring Force

United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office National Security and International Affairs Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 1995-03-30 monographic deposited born digital GA 1.13:T-NSIAD-95-129 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-T-NSIAD-95-129 P0b002ee1803a19bc f:tns95129 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-28 GAOREPORTS-T-NSIAD-95-129 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-T-NSIAD-95-129 T-NSIAD-95-129 Health services administration Military hospitals Defense contingency planning Military operations Health care personnel Reductions in force Emergency preparedness Health resources utilization Physicians Warfare National Disaster Medical System Testimony NSIAD Wartime Medical Care: Aligning Sound Requirements with New Combat Care Approaches Is Key to Restructuring Force 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. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-T-NSIAD-95-129/html/GAOREPORTS-T-NSIAD-95-129.htm GAO/T-NSIAD-95-129 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-T-NSIAD-95-129 Testimony GAO/T-NSIAD-95-129; Wartime Medical Care: Aligning Sound Requirements with New Combat Care Approaches Is Key to Restructuring Force; Health services administration Military hospitals Defense contingency planning Military operations Health care personnel Reductions in force Emergency preparedness Health resources utilization Physicians Warfare National Disaster Medical System