This was killed - do you beleive we should ask for this back?
Whether you are pending deployment or a veteran of a past deployment
we all rely on Military Medicine which is controlled by the
Department of Defense. Your care will depend on how this system is
managed. See below

Why hasn't our veteran's service organizations questioned the
activities of DMOC ? Why is the DMOC being disbanded?
What will be in place for today's military? Venus
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Military Update by: Tom Philpott
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Top Civilians Signal They're back In
Charge of Military Medicine
July 5, 2001

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his leadership team have
rejected a push by the Joint Chiefs to create a joint medical command
or some other military?led entity to control what the chiefs fear
are runaway TRICARE costs.

Not only has Rumsfeld and staff rejected the notion of giving
military officers greater control over health care resources, but
they are expected to dissolve the advisory panel that backed the
idea, the two year old Defense Medical Oversight Council (DMOC),
sources said.

Whether it was weak civilian leadership, hidden medical costs or some
other conditions that led to formation of DMOC, they no longer exist,
Rumsfeld's staff has suggested. DMOC no longer will be the dominant
voice in debates over the future of military medicine.

Co-chaired by one of the services' vice chiefs on a rotating basis,
and supported administratively by the Joint Staff, DMOC has been a
powerful tool of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in driving medical reforms
since 1999. Under the auspices of Rudy de Leon, then Under Secretary
for Personnel and Readiness, DMOC pressed the office of the
assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs to accelerate
TRICARE reforms for patients and providers alike, and to document
chronic under funding of military medical budgets during the Clinton
administration.

DMOC, with de Leon as its other co-chair, also educated senior
``line'' officers,the war fighters on the importance of health
care for troop morale and readiness, and on factors driving up costs
including waves of new drugs and critical medical technologies.