A better idea would be to immediately give all Vets unlimited private sector healthcare, and slowly shut down and sell the VA facilities.
Kill another Washington D.C. beast!
Home loans? Give it to the states?
Career Ret. Military are usually Tricare Prime and a secondary. Many are a combo due to their ages as couples. There is a 7 yr difference in mine hand hubby’s age, I was on Champus until I had to go on Disability due to health.
Over 65 and you are Medicare/Tricare Life. Lots of restrictions and DOD and Medicare Mandates.
Hearing aids are cosmetic items not necessities unless it is a Military disability. Same goes for glasses. Need your uneven badly done cataract implants fixed, Lasix is the way it’s done, and that is a Cosmetic process. My hearing aids at the low end were $3400. Glasses yearly $500. Because my cataract implants were done to far apart and came with astigmatism, vision was no longer fixable with glasses, as they could not correct the left eye better than 20/60 I had to have Lasix to correct it, no redoing cataract implants or piggy backing them. Cheaper to do Lasix. It’s a COSMETIC $5K procedure and I’ll still need bifocals as best they can correct is 20/30. So another $500 for new bifocals in 3 months. And that does not count the cost of lubricant eye drops for Dry Eye Syndrome both procedures cause. About $200 a year for those. Not covered under prescription. Or the $160 eyelid oil gland scrub I’ll need every year to keep them open. Not a covered medical expense.