Health care is DOD’s Achilles’ heel

The Pentagon currently spends more than $50 billion — about 10 percent of its base budget — on health care, an almost 300 percent increase over the last decade. These costs are projected to jump to $65 billion by fiscal 2015. To put this in perspective, the department will spend more on health care this fiscal year than on the war in Iraq and will probably spend more on health care in 2015 than …

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Health care is DOD’s Achilles’ heel

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