Americans who served their country in the Military and are now retired, their secondary health care plan to Medicare is Tricare Life for Ret. Military over 65. They control every aspect of your treatments, down to where you can get your daily med scripts. DOD MANDATED as of 4/14. Medicare has been controlling how long a patient can go to Physio and stay in the hospital for a illness for a decade or more.
WE paid for Medicare, WE paid for Tricare Life with 20 yrs of under paid service in the Military.
Both are RATIONED health care. And we can’t even take out a third policy to cover what they won’t cover. No dental, no vision, unless it is a disease, no hearing aids even if you are hard of hearing. A Co-Pay on such items would be welcome. Not asking for Total FREE, just a co-pay arrangement that private ins allows. 0 gutted Medicare, and congress gutted Tricare Life to pay for 0’care.
We don’t support socialized medicine, but ended up on it, just because we are seniors and hubby is 74 Ret. SCPO with 20 yrs of service.
Thank you for saying that. It’s rare on this site for US citizens to acknowledge that healthcare systems in the US (if it were not for Obamacare) are anything other than absolutely, rather than just relatively better than others such as the British NHS. In fact the distinctions are far from absolute. Your case is just one example - a British vet in your husband’s situation would have more options than you, since in the UK there are no restrictions on taking out additional private health cover if you so wish.