On Military Health Care

摘要

Along and frequently tense national debate over the cost of military health care once again is gathering force, threatening to become a divisive issue for President Obama in his first months in office. On one side of this argument are active duty service members, retirees, their family members, and their political advocates. They are warning the Department of Defense not to backslide on its long-standing promise to provide high-quality, affordable health care to the troops and to military retirees for life.