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SMSgt Anil Heendeniya
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
So much for our nation being "First World" in medical care, while those states are stuck in the distant past.
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Cpl Vic Burk
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SMSgt Anil Heendeniya I look for health care to become like it was in the 1800's. You will only be able to get it if you can afford it. In rural area it will be even worse.
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Cpl Vic Burk - Sad but true. Longer drives for routine care and emergency care success rate will drop. I can see the draw of living out in a forest somewhere, far from urban areas, but you'll have to take the bad with the good to do so.
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SMSgt Anil Heendeniya
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Cpl Vic Burk
I was in Aerospace Medicine/search and rescue for 17 of my 20 years in uniform. Military personnel are indeed in better physical shape ON ENTERING SERVICE than our civililan counterparts, but depending on what we did, that condition is continually impacted by the immense physical activities we deal with in the course of our duties. Once we've left that occupation, we then have to deal with the physical and mental results of those impacts on our health and wellness.

I'm fortunate to have TriCare as a retiree, but I've found it to be inconsistent around the country--there are some TriCare catchment areas in the country whose patient population isn't as well-served as it could be.

That said, we retirees are in far better 'care groups' than those who aren't retirees, but who still have medical challenges that need attention. I tried to convince my kid brother to transfer to the reserves when he got out after six years in blue, but he demurred. He turned 61 two days ago, and gave me a laundry list of his physical complaints, along with his regrets about not transferring to the reserves after he pulled his "D" rings. In his case, hindsight is 20/20.
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Too many do not understand basic biology, and reproduction is complex biology.
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