Forbes August 20, 2025
Recently, Senators McConnell (R-KY) and Coons (D-DE) cosponsored a bill to invest more than $850 billion to strengthen our nation’s defense industrial base, upgrade its shipbuilding capabilities, replenish munitions, and support key allies. Although these are worthy goals, Congress and the White House must not overlook the system that safeguards the health of American warfighters – our military’s most important asset.
Last March, the Chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS), made pointed remarks at the outset of a hearing on stabilizing the military health system:
“In 2019, the military departments implemented drastic cuts to military medical personnel on the faulty assumption that it would be easy for DHA (the Defense Health Agency) to hire...
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