Seriously, I see what he wants to do, but like you said, they have different missions.
What we don’t see mentioned in this mess is that military medicine is just as screwed up as the VA. “Merging” the VA with DoD is just plain silly.
How is it a different mission to care for your former soldiers, airmen, seamen, etc.?
This is like saying the DOD should get out of the logistics business because that’s not their mission.