“Free health care for life” costs more and more each year. And then you get kicked to the curb when you hit medicare age.
What was it the recruiter said to me in 1974?
Yep at 65 you get kicked to Medicare and Tricare, both administered out of the same agency. Then you find a lot of primary care docs dumping you. Many Military bases no longer have medical centers, like the one in Millington, the hospital was closed after it went from a training facility to a records keeping one.
Don’t get me started on the high priced Exchanges, or the Commissaries which don’t usually save the Military personnel much, beyond a few cents in taxes. $200 Vera Wang wallets...give me a break..those are Macy and Dillard’s prices.