DOD's 21st Century Health Care Spending Challenges

GAO-07-766CG Published: Apr 18, 2007. Publicly Released: Apr 18, 2007.

Highlights

This is a Comptroller General Presentation delivered to the Task Force on the Future of Military Health Care on April 18, 2007. Major topics of this presentation include: growth in health care spending, cumulative growth in health care spending per capita, growth in DOD health care spending, and comparison of average out-of-pocket costs for a family of three in various health plans, 2005.

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