Lindsey Graham

Various study groups in recent years have questioned the wisdom of the military's traditional 20-year requirement to earn retired pay

Senator Graham. General Schoomaker, there is disciplinary action pending against Major Nidal Hasan, but we need to know what steps you have taken to ensure that the performance of young doctors in the Army Medical Corps is being accurately…

General Green, are you designing strategies in behavioral health and suicide prevention tailored to those at highest risk?

Could you please elaborate on your testimony regarding a 'platinum 15 minutes'?

Your testimony indicates that health care costs are expected to grow from 6 percent to more than 10 percent of the 000 top line by fiscal year 2015.

General Schoomaker, please tell me more about the Confidential Alcohol Treatment and Education Pilot program.

Admiral Jeffries, are there sufficient medical resources to support Marine Corps wounded warriors?

I have read that Medicare has a fraud rate of as high as 10 percent--the highest rate of any Federal program.

I am not happy to hear that implementation of TRICARE for Gray Area reservists is taking so long.

I was gratified to learn that enrollment in TRICARE for Reserves has grown significantly since last year.

Yes, I agree there is a shortage of health care professionals in the military and America.

I want to ensure that TRICARE beneficiaries continue to have timely access to high quality health care during the protest period and the critical transition period to the new contracts.

We need to do that, and you're well on your way to doing it.

Do you agree that many troops are taking more than one kind of psychiatric drug, 'mixing daily cocktails,' and that this behavior can lead to suicide?

Can you assure me that TRICARE's beneficiaries will not be harmed during this contract transition?

There may be secondary effects to TRICARE, but we will ensure these effects will not hurt military health care in the future.

We have to make that as seamless as possible.

Do you agree that such a program could be beneficial?

Haiti was a major effort, and I couldn't be more proud of the Active and Reserve components helping the people of Haiti.

I want to be generous and fair to all those who serve, but there's a cost-containment problem within DOD's budget.

There's nothing wrong with going to the mental health professionals in your unit, or the doctor or the surgeon, and saying, 'Hey, Doc, you know, I need a little help here.'

We need to know more about the impediments to achieving this goal so that rapid--but equitable--access to the Reserve components can be achieved.

We have statutory limitations on how often you can be called up.

Admiral Jeffries, are there sufficient resources--surgeons and mental health providers--to save lives in Afghanistan as we did in Iraq?

I do not believe the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will have any negative impacts on health care benefits for military personnel, retirees, and their families.