Military health care program inadequacies revealed

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Military health care program inadequacies revealed

Abstracted for the WSJ - "After four years of providing care to military personnel, their families and retirees, I've had it.

The hassles of working with the Tricare program that covers health care for these people got the better of me. I've taken care of about 80 Tricare patients. But I won't be seeing them anymore.

I was one of a few physicians in the area to participate in Tricare. Patients sometimes came as far as 50 miles, bypassing several large hospitals and hundreds of other doctors who weren't in the network, to be seen in my small-town clinic.

One woman needed a colorectal surgeon because she had a fistula, an abnormal connection between her bowels and uterus. The specialized surgeons in our region weren't in the network, and the closest Tricare doctors who could help were in Indiana. She traveled out of state to get her problem fixed."

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