ImproperUsername wrote:
HNR83 wrote:
USMC wife and totally thrilled I get to use the GI bill since my husband never planned on it. Holy hell the paperwork though. I will say the VA still sucks and so do the naval hospitals, if your not shot or having a baby they are not of much use. lol

I avoid my area military hospital completely because it is such a puzzle palace. I just pay for everything out of my own pocket and go to a local doctor of my own choice. I don't bother with trying to get compensated through that tricare crap anymore. Local physicians won't bill it directly themselves because it is such a headache. Y'all want 100 percent government healthcare, you think??? Believe me, you DON'T want it, it would be as bad or worse than tricare. I don't know if it is true, but I've heard that tricare was Hillary's plaything when she was unelected co-president.

Now, when we lived in Alabama back in the early 90's, I really liked the hospital at Ft Rucker. They managed family health care very efficiently (I don't know if they still do).
@ highlighted. That came up in the discussion this morning with the other mil wife. No entity in the United States embodies socialism/communism quite like the military.

Bureaucratic. Socialist. Encouraging more children and "indoctrinating." Single payer healthcare.

Of course it isn't as simplistic as that, but you can def draw the comparisons! Especially funny when you think of how many of us are Republicans! (but all too many don't vote )

ETA: I gotta say thought, I love my health care through tricare. Maybe I've just had good experiences? I dunno. Sorry you guys have had so much trouble. I found private healthcare to be much more paper work and headache (had blue cross/blue shield)

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SM's all badass keeping illegal chickens in her yard and what not. She's a G.
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