I neither said nor implied that. I simply wondered if, the treatment having already been provided, Woodruff's and Vogt's employer would reimburse the government for the cost of the transportation and the care.
I'm sorry if you took it that way. I just am questioning how any civilian can get treatment at Bethesda -- even if paid for. It just doesn't work that way. There's something that isn't right here. I don't understand. Military retirees are turned away every day from military treatment facilities (MTFs) because they will treat them on a "space available" basis, but they always claim they have no space available. That's why Tricare was set up -- so that retirees could get treatment from civilian doctors because there was no room at the MTFs.