Last five posts from the CHAT-M-Room (Town Common) are:

Jim,Richard & Alan
I use the VA Outpatient Clinic in Hyannis and found them to be
very helpful, caring and they bend over backwards to help vets.
It's a system and one has to work with it.
Nothing is perfect.
MERRY CHRISTMAS to ALL in the room !
Bill B.
Chatham

Bill B <bbantiqs@comcast.net>
Chatham, MA USA - Sun 12/22/2024 - 12:38:23
gotta concur with Richard. I will NOT use VA as they are incompetent buffoons (at least here). I use what Richard uses and have TriCare for life. We chose to go out of network for your Doctors and use the UT health System which is extraordinary. Doc visits cost me 50 bucks a pop but tricare picks up the rest. I am very pleased with this option, especially when we hear what regular folks have to pay for health insurance.

Active duty families pay nothing for health care as it is part of the package. You'd be surprised how accommodating the system is for families. I also recommend young men and women to join the military. At least jump in and do an initial tour.

The GI Bill now pays for room, board, books, tuition, AND pays you at the rate of an E-5 while you are going to school!!! You can't beat that at all!! Get paid to go to school.

Jim
USA - Sun 12/22/2024 - 07:19:21
My Health Care comes through TriCare for Life, not the VA. I only relied on the VA for a set of hearing aids, which were top of the line. I did have to pay $80.00 for each visit, but that is the only time I've had to pay for such things since I retired in 1979. I have had open heart surgery, two knee replacements, a pacemaker, gall ladder surgery, etc. partially paid by Medicare and backed up by Tricare for Life as the secondary payer.
I try to encourage young persons, male or female, how much such things could mean as they age if they just would sign up and do 20.

Richard Gould Ryder <dickryder413@gmail.com>
Eastham, MA USA - Sat 12/21/2024 - 19:15:33
Jim /Richard
yes the VA can be great and understand insurance is second to none, however and hopefully you and the family will never cross this bridge, but you might find that experimental drugs, not approved by the
FDA may not be covered. key word not approved.

Alan
USA - Fri 12/20/2024 - 21:19:59
Alan, appreciate the thought. It HAS been slow in here. Just too much wrong with that story. In uniform; sitting in first class (prohibited in uniform unless upgraded on the spot); two extra jobs, no health care, etc....etc.

There's a LOT of issues being in service to the Nation but the health care was pretty good.

Wish I could say the same for the VA but so far as I am concerned, they are a criminal organization.

Jim
USA - Fri 12/20/2024 - 20:50:10