More affordable health care! (except for the military)

[old navy]

So only those that serve in theatre should get their promised benefits? What of cops or firefighters?

I think everyone's healthcare should be "free".

My premiums were pre-payed with 26 years of honorable Naval service. I, nor you, have not gotten free health care since retiring. I don't mind a modest increase in Tricare premiums, but for the POTUS to threat vetoing the defense authorization act due to congress not putting in his large increase is BS.

I have an ortho consult from my PCM and can't get in to see the docs at Walter Reed. I'm finding that lots of civilians are no longer taking Tricare.

Asking those that have sacrificed the most to make the first PPACA tax payment is ludacrous. Police and fire fighters (paid and the majority volunteers, you remember) get to go home every night.

still find the ''denied due to tricare'' unconscionable...the doctor refusing is living the cushy good life, probably never served a day of his life, while others like you, who put in 26 years, probably some war time too, bear witness to our Constitution and the protection of it and defense of every soul in this country...and the Doctor refuses you as a patient because he loses a mere 10%-20% at the most, of the full price insurance companies may pay....seriously...who the heck would even want that person as their Doctor???

I agree but also agree with his/her right to choose who to do business with.

Lots of people do not know that Medicare and Tricare are tied in. Two very large programs that lend to the federal government providing health care for over 50 percent of the population. Generations of military members stayed for 20 plus based on the implied intent of the government to provide free health care for life. This benefit was never in writing of course and the DOD started charging retirees for their care. As I said, I don't mind a small increase but will not stand by and get screwed.

 

[Too Tall]

let the public employees go to afghanistan and get their asses shot off. Our military health care should be free.

So only those that serve in theatre should get their promised benefits? What of cops or firefighters?

I think everyone's healthcare should be "free".

My premiums were pre-payed with 26 years of honorable Naval service. I, nor you, have not gotten free health care since retiring. I don't mind a modest increase in Tricare premiums, but for the POTUS to threat vetoing the defense authorization act due to congress not putting in his large increase is BS.

I have an ortho consult from my PCM and can't get in to see the docs at Walter Reed. I'm finding that lots of civilians are no longer taking Tricare.

Asking those that have sacrificed the most to make the first PPACA tax payment is ludacrous. Police and fire fighters (paid and the majority volunteers, you remember) get to go home every night.

I did 6 years in the USAF and go to the VA clinic every 6 months for a checkup and some pills. The lady Doctor is great, but I use a civilian Doctor to replace my pacemaker every 8 years or so. I am three years into my third one. Does anyone know if there is a limit to how many pacemakers can be replaced? On second thought, I don't really want to know if it is limited to three.

Thanks for 26 years of honorable service sailor. I sailed from Morehead City, NC to Rota Spain on the USS Okinawa as a civilian tech rep. The navy crew was top drawer.

 

[Political Junky]

The VA is totally socialist, totally government run, doctors and nurses are paid by the government. It's great health care.

 

[old navy]

So only those that serve in theatre should get their promised benefits? What of cops or firefighters?

I think everyone's healthcare should be "free".

My premiums were pre-payed with 26 years of honorable Naval service. I, nor you, have not gotten free health care since retiring. I don't mind a modest increase in Tricare premiums, but for the POTUS to threat vetoing the defense authorization act due to congress not putting in his large increase is BS.

I have an ortho consult from my PCM and can't get in to see the docs at Walter Reed. I'm finding that lots of civilians are no longer taking Tricare.

Asking those that have sacrificed the most to make the first PPACA tax payment is ludacrous. Police and fire fighters (paid and the majority volunteers, you remember) get to go home every night.

I did 6 years in the USAF and go to the VA clinic every 6 months for a checkup and some pills. The lady Doctor is great, but I use a civilian Doctor to replace my pacemaker every 8 years or so. I am three years into my third one. Does anyone know if there is a limit to how many pacemakers can be replaced? On second thought, I don't really want to know if it is limited to three.

Thanks for 26 years of honorable service sailor. I sailed from Morehead City, NC to Rota Spain on the USS Okinawa as a civilian tech rep. The navy crew was top drawer.

Thanks too tall. I left from Morehead City a few times as well when assigned to the Marines.

Off the top of my head, I think there is NO limit as to the number of times your pacemaker can be replaced. My wife's brother is a cardio tech and I will ask him.

 

[old navy]

The VA is totally socialist, totally government run, doctors and nurses are paid by the government. It's great health care.

True statement and the same is true of DOD medicine.

Socialism is great for the ruling class but no so much for the people. How ironic that the Socialist in Chief wants to make the retired miltary members his first victim of his new tax/penalty/fee/assessment AKA the PPACA. Disgusting.

 

[Care4all]

My father served in the USAF for 22 years, after that, another 15 years with the FAA, then he retired completely. He and my mom have had their Health care paid for, nearly in full, for the most of their lives, as a benefit my father was promised when he joined the Air force. They have been blessed with having it. My father has been diagnosed with 3 different cancers, all found early and all operable, and curable...if found early....and because he and mom had that health care benefit, they both have stayed healthy and young and caught all the 'bad things' early on.

but let me tell you something...this directed at those that think this benefit was not earned by our enlisted men....

When my older sis and I were young, we had NOTHING....my mother sewed our clothes, because we could not afford to buy them...sure we had base housing, but they paid enlisted men so so so so little for at least the first 10 - 15 years my father was in the Air Force...we ate a lot of beans and rice and spaghetti. my mother planted a vegetable garden, and we had that to eat, with meat only once in a while...I'm not kidding, we were poor poor poor....one car family, with out first b & w tv in the house when I was about 10 years old.

I went to 18 different schools before I graduated high school...18 schools for 12 grades of school...most people have 3, elementary, jr high (middle school), and high school...but because my Dad was transfered to different States about once a year...and usually midstream the school year...I was faced with school after school after school after school...pretty traumatizing for children...never being able to stay in one region long enough to make good friends with class mates and always being interupted in their learning process...States all have different curriculum and they never seemed to line up when I was moved. Not to mention the year of trauma, living without my Dad when he was in Viet Nam...that's scary stuff for a kid.

It was not until my father made master sgt, then senior master sgt, and then finally Chief master sgt...before I would say we had finally "made it" to middle class...and this was nearly 15 years of poverty beforehand.

So please, know that at least with enlisted men in the service, they lead a life of pure poverty for over a decade before and if they ever truly rise out of it, if they are a lifer....

they deserve the health care benefit...they earned it.