No.Military healthcare by definition is government run. The hospitals are government owned. the doctors are government employees. The budget and funding is controlled by the government.

As for funding shortfalls. The problem comes from the fact that taxes were cut right when a 3 trillion dollar offensive was starting up. And Republicans decided, the same way Rumsey did, that soldiers should get care from the system they have, not the system they, as combat soldiers, needed. The funding problems comes with the fact that congress and the White House, while throwing billions at no-bid contracts, have continuously short-changed the military medical establishment when it needed their help the most. It is not about waste, it is about politicians ignoring the people they stand on the shoulders of.

But about military health care. For most servicemen, active and retired, and their families, they are getting quality care from quality physicians in a government run system. If they weren't, don't you think that pundits would have already been talking down the system in this bid for no reform?

And yeah, we will get screwed if there is no competition set up against the insurance companies. Or if the insurance companies continue to put profit before customer care. See, that is where military care has it beat. Their patients are seen as patients. Period.