TRICARE -- The Military Medical / Health Insurance Program Has Really Stepped Up Its Game -- August 23, 2023

Locator: 45472TRICARE.

Link here.

This is really, really amazing. Medicare will not cover health care costs if not approved by FDA and/or other government agencies -- there are exceptions.

However, "we" all know that there are a lot of medications, diagnostic, and therapeutic procedures that are beneficial and due to the FDA glacial bureaucracy have simply not approve them. The retired general officers managing Tricare know this and have taken the bull by the horns. 

See above.

I am very, very impressed. 

For those over retired military 65+, Medicare is "first" payer, and then Tricare covers that which Medicare does not pay. The co-pays are practically zero and the one-year deductible is inconsequential. The premiums for both are pricey but those premiums are paid out of benefits so beneficiaries don't actually have to write a check in most cases.

For active duty military and their spouses, of course, Tricare covers "everything."

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Coverage, Billing, Payments

Absolutely 100% transparent and 100% "seamless."

And that's a fact, Jack.