Defense Health Care: DOD Needs to Address the Expected Benefits, Costs, and Risks for Its Newly Approved Medical Command Structure

Abstract

DOD considered options to address the departments dual health care mission that differed in their approaches to both command structure and operations. In April 2006, the Joint/Unified Medical Command Working Group identified three options: (1) establishing a unified medical command on par with other functional combatant commands; (2) establishing two separate commandsa Medical Command, which would provide operational/deployable medicine, and a Healthcare Command, which would provide beneficiary health care through the military treatment facilities and civilian providers; and(3) designating one of the military services to provide all health care services across the department.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2007
Accession Number
AD1183548

Entities

People

  • Henry L. Jr Hinton

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Base Closures
  • Business Process Reengineering
  • Command And Control
  • Congress
  • Cost Benefit Analysis
  • Department Of Defense
  • Education
  • Enlisted Personnel
  • Governments
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Hospitals
  • Military Medicine
  • Military Operations
  • Military Personnel
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Therapy
  • Training
  • United States Government

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Business Analytics
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Medical or Health Care Field.