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For hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops and their families, when the Pentagon orders them to find health care off base there is none.
An NPR analysis found that 50% of active duty military installations stand within federally designated health professional shortage areas (HPSA). Those are places where medical services are hard to find — commonly called “health care deserts.”
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