Surpise!........ Surprise... aka- we are from the givernment we’re here to help..
Thank goodness for Obamacare! that will save her
Buying insurance after the fact. NICE!
Next time I get into a car accident I get car insurance the next day and get them to pay for it.
Or, if my house burns down I will run out and buy homeowners insurance.
Military medicine is socialized medicine. Pretty good at taking care of young troops or wounded warriors, not so good with dependents or retirees.
No ‘Death Panels’, eh? Looks like Sarah Palin nailed it again.
But I thought the government promised healthcare for everyone! Was I wrong or something?!!!
Very shameful and strange stuff - the hospital and the doctors know that this is a life-threatening and time- sensitive condition, yet no one thought their oaths as medical professionals called for doing the surgery anyway?
They could always have sent her the bill afterward, so she could fund raise/get a loan, etc.?
Doctors are just mercenaries after all.
A contract is a contract.
Unless something else nefarious is going on here, this is a non-story.
Uh, folks, this is bullshit.
If her husband is retired and they are still married in good faith, etc, her medical is still good, especially in an Army Hospital, assuming of course that the payments for the lifetime free medical has been kept up.
She had been led to believe her health care expired on Jan. 30, six months after her husband’s injuries discharged him from service.
Well, that's a new one on me.
If he was medically discharged, in lieu of retirement, she may not be eligible, but if he was retired and the premiums for Tricare Prime have been maintained, she is fully eligible, even if he has died as long as she has not remarried and the premiums have been maintained.
There is something else going on here...we have not been told the whole story.
Sounds to me like a great many important details have been left out of this story.
Where is her husband in all this? He can’t check on when his benefits expire before his wife has a biopsy?
Did the husband not hear of COBRA?
But I thought obamacare was going to solve all that!
The LOVE of MONEY is the ROOT of EVIL.
They sentenced her to death.
They are high fiving each other for their bonus money.
This is done all the time with ‘free’ healthcare in Canada and England as examples. Thousands die and the hospital administrators and the insurance exec make millions.
Tricare is something I know about and this is wrong. If you are married to a military retiree your benefits never expire unless you remarry.
Now you card may expire, but that does not mean the benefits have, you just have to go to a base or armory and get a new card.
If her husband is retired she is still covered by Tricare, can also take out policy with Tricare Prime for greater coverage.
There’s such a thing as COBRA
She might have to wait a while...
My granddaughter who is on Obamacare because her dad took a new job with crappy medical benefits had to wait about nine months to be approved for a simple tonsillectomy...
A routine surgery