S.Amdt. 758

SA 758. Mr. BROWN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2024 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place in title VII, insert the
following:

SEC. ___. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON MAINTAINING INPATIENT MILITARY
MEDICAL TREATMENT FACILITIES.

It is the sense of the Congress that--
(1) inpatient military medical treatment facilities are
critical components of the military health system and are
necessary to develop and maintain a medically ready military
that can be deployed on short notice on an operational
mission;
(2) inpatient military medical treatment facilities are
required to develop and retain the skilled medical personnel
who provide the properly trained subspecialities needed to
care for members of the Armed Forces in wartime and during
deployments;
(3) the Secretary of each military department should
support a sufficient number of inpatient medical treatment
facilities of the size and diversity of specialties necessary
to ensure military readiness; and
(4) the Director of the Defense Health Agency and the
Secretary of each military department, particularly the
Secretary of the Air Force, should aggressively pursue
creative options, including increased partnership with the
Secretary of Veterans Affairs, to maintain economical
efficiency for inpatient military medical treatment
facilities.
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