The Washington Post (1/16, Blakemore) reports, “Military members and their families have unique mental health needs,” but research indicates that “up to 35 percent of military recipients don’t have access to adequate psychiatric care despite government insurance that covers such services.” Investigators arrived at that conclusion after examining “39,487 U.S. Zip codes with at least one beneficiary of Tricare, the Defense Department health-care program that covers uniformed service members, retirees and their families,” then combining “data from a variety of federal sources with community information.” The findings were published online Jan. 3 in JAMA Network Open.
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