I have to say, I’m a retiree’s wife, he died in ‘08 and I of course still have my ID and coverage. They’ve done a FANTASTIC job of covering my care, which includes two different cancers, surgeries, chemotherapies, radiation.
Many, many hundreds of thousands of dollars in care. They’ve never turned me down for anything I’ve needed. I’ve had PET scans and CT scans and X rays and biopsies. The list is endless.
I’m a retiree, as was my father. My parents received such substandard care at Walter Reed that I pulled them out and got good specialists through Medicare, all within three miles of their home. WRAMC was filthy, rundown, and a bacteria factory. Docs failed to diagnose my mother’s ovarian cancer; civilian surgeon removed a bowling ball sized tumor. Military medicine failed to diagnose a lung fungus I contracted during a flight detachment to the Imperial Valley. Coughed for more than four months before it burned out. Developed a baseball sized sebaceous cyst on my shoulder after ship’s dispensary gave me five simultaneous immunizations in one arm. Ship’s doc refused to treat it, telling me to wait three weeks to make home port. Used a knife to lance the cyst myself (no painkillers), and drained it over a number of days. Still have minor flareups for time to time.