DoD pressing ahead with plans to close, realign medical facilities despite GAO warnings

Summary: The Defense Department is moving ahead with plans to close or restructure almost 50 of its military treatment facilities. That’s despite a recent GAO report that found DoD targeted those facilities for “right sizing” without gathering enough data on whether they patients they serve can be absorbed into the civilian health care system. As Federal News Network’s Jared Serbu reports, the first of the closures could happen as soon as this year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices