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Our beneficiaries have choices. Through health care transparency we are empowering our beneficiaries to see how the Military Health System truly compares to others. We expect they will be pleasantly surprised by the value we provide them.

The pilot for a new, jointly-developed DoD-VA disability evaluation system (DES), set to expand from five to 22 military bases by May, does much of what proponents hoped it would. It allows more injured or ill service members to win higher disability ratings, to see VA payments start faster and, through greater transparency in the process, to feel they have been treated more fairly by government.