Posted on Feb 8, 2020

More Than 3 Dozen Military Hospitals to Stop Treating Retirees, Families, Memo Shows

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More Than 3 Dozen Military Hospitals to Stop Treating Retirees, Families, Memo Shows

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Posted 6 y ago

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1SG Steven Imerman

Posted 6 y ago

We live more than 50 miles from Ft.Leonard Wood, so we have never been able to use the hospital. However, Tricare is fantastic health insurance, and no premiums to pay, ever. We were Tricare Select (they change the name every few years, it was Tricare Prime), and now since I'm on Medicare I have Tricare for Life, and my wife will switch over next month. We have had no complaints, and we get to use the pharmacy at FLW for free prescription fills and refills. We drive up there every 90 days for prescriptions, and hit the commissary, too. Not having the use of a military hospital has never hurt us. They opened a new VA clinic here in town last year, but we're happy with our private doctor, and since their pharmacy is not as extensive as the one at FLW, I've only visited it once to check it out. So they are not leaving retirees high and dry, or anything like that.

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I guess it's a little different for me with my autistic son.

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1SG Steven Imerman

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I cannot say about that. I know our little city, 150,000, has a great autism program in the school system, I was a spec ed teacher for the last nine years I worked.

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MSgt (Anonymous) - I am currently looking in to some things with a friend who runs a non profit at my American Legion post. The issue is Autism is a very broad spectrum and not all cases are the same. I was limited on duty stations before I retired due to only certain locations have the resources for my son.

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