Summary: Each of the military armed services has been moving to reduce its numbers of uniformed health care clinicians. The Defense Department wants to partly replace that workforce with civilian doctors and nurses to free up military billets for other missions. But Congress isn’t thrilled with the idea. And as Federal News Network’s Jared Serbu reports, the final agreement on this year’s National Defense Authorization Act throws up a roadblock. Hear more on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
