Before hearing his confirmation to become Assistant Secretary of Defense on Thursday, Keith Boss faces tough questions from a prominent Democrat of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Boss, a retired Navy commander and subsidized Elege Counselor, who previously guides the Central Intelligence Agency’s Office for Medical Services and the White House Medical Unit, was named on December 22 to manage the Department of Defense’s $ 61 billion health system, which includes a 9.5 million -day service.
The Assistant Secretary of Health Affairs is responsible for protecting and protecting the Armed Forces health, formulating policy and management of the Pentagon’s health budget. He also served as a senior adviser to health affairs related to those benefited for the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegasism.
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But the military health system is currently facing challenges on a number of fronts, including staff shortage in medical facilities, patients maintaining patients’ training and expertise, and issues in the Tribal Health Program, which have led to patients with care and care.
In a letter written to the boss on Monday, a member of the armed services staff subcommittee, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D Moss, asked if she depended on this task.
Referring to the boss’s experiences in the White House and the CIA, which was investigated by the Defense Department’s Office Inspector General and media reports reported mismanagement, Warren said he feared that he was “unable to fill the role.”
I according to an article Spy Tilk cited by WarrenThe boss was fired as the head of the CIA Medical Office, also known as the CIA Medical Office, after misunderstanding the investigation into the Havana Syndrome, also known as extraordinary health cases, which influenced more than 330 US Department of State, Intelligence and Defense Officers.
The article indicates the alleged reaction of the boss’s alleged reaction in the agency, “to hurt his position and file.”
Warren also cited the DODIG report released last January, stating that during the Boss of the White House, civilian staff members who were not eligible for military health services – who were an average of six to 20 patients a week.
The investigation also revealed that the unit distributed sd.
Warren asked the boss whether he was familiar with “severe and systemic problems” under his watch.
“Best, you were oblivious to the widespread distribution of CDTose and motivations through the White House pharmacy operations and, in the worst case, you were involved. Either the scenario should disqualify you from serving as a service. [assistant secretary of defense for health affairs]”Warren wrote.
In his recent position, the boss led the Western Texas VA Healthcare System, which served 24,000 veterans, with the monitoring of the medical center $ 153 million and the operating budget of 1,120 employees.
President Donald Trump December 22 announced the boss’s nomination with several other Defense Department leaders, calling him “a US Slate America First Patriots”.
In a announcement, Trump wrote, “Keith is a retired Navy commander that has more than 30 years of health care experience. … Keith will lead the charge to ensure that our army is healthy, and will get the best medical care,” Trump wrote in an announcement.
The boss’s nomination hearing will be the first time that he has made public statements about his plans for the military health system.
Dr. Stephen Ferrara, a retired intercontinental radiologist, who served as Chief Medical Officer in the CIA, has served as Acting Assistant Secretary for Health Affairs Since January, which has been a source of health, and in this month, in a monthly healthcare system, in this month, in this month, he has served as the Acting Secretary for Health Affairs. There is also a journey.
Ferra has promised to ensure that the military health system reopens its efforts to help and provide war medicines.
“And this is a moral mandatory … when the sons and daughters of the United States go into the range and go on the path of loss, we respect their contract and when their parents handed over their children to these missions, they will get sick or injured, they will get immediate and effective medical help anywhere in the world.”
The Senate’s Armed Services Committee will also hear testimony from the boss on Thursday as well as three other nominees: to become secretary of the Troy Mank Air Force. Michael Duffy, suggested by the Under Secretary of Defense for acquisition and maintain. And as the Under Secretary of Defense for Emal Michael Research and Engineering.
In his letter sent to the boss through the White House, Warren requested answers to his questions in writing by Wednesday.
Warren wrote, “Given your past past … I am concerned that if you are confirmed, you will not be able to effectively handle the health care system of millions of people. I urge you to show your commitment to clarify.”
The White House did not respond to the comments request at the time of publication.
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