I’m sure this makes sense to someone, but not to this engineer.
Veterans suffer from different classes of ailments as active duty military (obviously, with overlap). It’s pretty danged rare that a military MD sees an octogenarian, with the attendant maladies that come with such a respectable age.
I’m not seeing how the political solution is a solution for the affected people.
“Veterans suffer from different classes of ailments as active duty military (obviously, with overlap).”
Actually, military bases are trying to get more retirees to get their medical care on base because doctors that see only healthy people tend to lose their skills. A study found that military docs take a while to catch up to full speed when we shift from peace time to war time, and when war time is over we have exceptional military docs who waste their skills again on healthy people. This proposal has the potential to be a great idea.
Hence they merge.
VA civ docs and uniform docs both working same facility seeing active, reserve, and veteran patients.
Military hospitals are required to have a limited number of retired veterans as patients. I’m enrolled at a military hospital near me and there are other retired vets being treated there, and a good number are older than me (i.e. late 60s), alongside the ‘youngsters’ on active duty.