In the United States and other nations around the world, health care spending and the number of doctors increase as the economy expands. However, doctor shortages are a major concern globally, and the United States and Military Health System (MHS) are no exception. According to Garber (2004) “an exit from shortage occurs when there is unsatisfied demand, which occurs when the quantity of a good or service is less than what people would be willing to purchase at the current price”. For example, a long wait time to perform an elective surgery or a long wait for a patient to get a doctor's appointment are evidence of a doctor shortage. Another definition of shortage is “having a projected supply of physicians that meets less than 80% of the projected demand or need, calculated according to estimated averages (Scheffler, Liu, Kinfu, & Dal Poz, 2007). The World Health Organization report (2006) estimates that there is an absolute shortage of 2.3 million doctors in 57 countries. This shortage, according to previous studies, implied a lack of sufficient health professionals to provide skilled health interventions such as childbirth. Schaffer et al. (2007) projected the global supply of medical workforce to balance demand using the demand base model and sufficient surplus in the year 2015. Despite this projection of surplus and balance of medical workforce globally, the shortage problem will still remain with some countries and nations due to distribution problems that continue to persist, and Africa, for example, will need an approximately 65% ​​increase in the supply of doctors by 2015 (Scheffler et al., 2007). According to Cooper (2004 and 2005) the physician shortage in the United States was linked to the economic capacity... middle of paper... in the United States and abroad to supplement the care provided to the growing beneficiary population in MTFs. The MTF is TRICARE's primary healthcare facility. The TRICARE PCP shortage is due to deployment to war zones, humanitarian missions, and training in special combat skills. During the research we will attempt to answer the primary question and then the other sub-questions relating to; Basic history of TRICARE, epidemiology, types of doctors, administration, policy and law, finance, staffing, marketing, ethical issues, complaints, and beneficiary satisfaction. Other areas include the role restructuring plays in resolving beneficiary complaints and the impact TRICARE restructuring will have on the delivery of health care to beneficiaries. The summary, recommendations and conclusions will finally be addressed to complete this research paper.