Originally Posted by
tnkrdrvr
I won’t poopoo the value of having TriCare as an option. I will say that I deliberately opted out of TriCare so that I could take full advantage of being able to put money into an HSA. Like Rickair said, at top tier payscales you can easily afford what you want for health insurance. My company’s health insurance provides access to doctors who won’t take TriCare. After twenty years I was done with second class healthcare.
I think that’s largely based on where you live. Everyone takes Tricare where I am, so it all comes down to the cost of the plan. At $316 annually for a family of 4, it’s tough to beat.
Certainly a tough call for
lancejohnson. Having a pension and essentially free healthcare has made it easy to fly only a few days a month and actually enjoy my time off rather than scrapping together a schedule between the reserves and the airline.