Originally Posted by
blastoff
And you do realize that the quality of Military care stinks, right? This is the reason many are electing to pay more in copays for Tricare Standard instead of Tricare Prime to avoid sending their wives and kids to the "hobby shop" for healthcare. Go in for Gall Bladder surgery and
come out with no legs...this is the kind of buffoonery going on in our USAF Hospitals/clinics.
Agreed, I won't send my family to the military clinics.
Originally Posted by
MD10PLT
Gotta echo the above. I have a choice of Tricare and a FedEx health plan. It cost $3,000 a year more to use the FedEx plan, but I gladly pay it to not have to deal with the "government tricare".
However, "Tricare" is not military health care, it is military health insurance. Tricare standard is excellent and low cost health insurance. I save thousands of dollars per year in premiums, co-pays, and deductibles by sticking with tricare standard instead of my company's health insurance. Those savings are with a generally healthy family. If someone gets really sick the savings would be much greater. Tricare's catastrophic cap is below most company's annual deductible.
The one caveat to my savings is that I'm not willing to put my family in an HMO. Of course you can save more money in an HMO. But the ability to send my family to any doctor without referrals is worth sticking with a PPO.