Military Hospital Plans Spinning Out Of Control

The Pentagon's attempt to consolidate two of its hospitals to treat injured troops has doubled in price and suffers from a lack of direction, according to an independent review cited by USA Today.

The cost of closing Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and replacing it with a larger complex at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., as well as building a hospital at Fort Belvoir, Va., has risen from $1 billion to $2.6 billion, according to Dept. of...