Active duty soldiers, veterans, and their families in southern Arizona are being told by pharmacies located on federal military bases that their prescriptions cannot be renewed due to lack of funding.
He added, "Our federal government can do all of this, but yet they can't ensure that active duty military service members, their dependents and retirees, obtain the medications they need for illnesses and injuries that they sustained on military service and were promised to them for their honorable service to the nation."
The Walgreens near Ft. Huachuca, located in Sierra Vista, confirmed that "Many" customers unable to fill their prescriptions at the military pharmacy were coming there instead, where they were required to pay for their medications.
A source who preferred not to be identified told The Sun Times that multiple pharmacies in Arizona are reporting receiving customers from military bases when they run out of funding, which usually occurs at this time of the month since the funding runs out on the 15th of each month.
Terrence Hayes, press secretary for the Veterans Administration, helped clarify that this shortage did not affect veterans who receive their prescriptions through the VA. "Our VA pharmacies are fully operational, and we have not heard any concerns associated with Veterans filling prescriptions," he told The Sun Times.
"All Veterans should be able to fill their prescriptions as they normally would, without paying out-of-pocket costs aside from their usual copays." He explained that the VA does not provide healthcare to active-duty military members, as the Department of Defense covers them with its TRICARE coverage.
An article published by the Military Officers Association of America last October expressed concern that cuts were being made to TRICARE and the military health system.
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