Text 43734, 80 rader
Skriven 2006-12-05 05:22:54 av Bob Ackley (1:2905/3)
  Kommentar till text 43652 av shannon talley (1:275/311)
Ärende: (1/2) Insults
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Replying to a message of shannon talley to Bob Ackley:

 st> Hi Bob,

 >> He may want to rethink that.  Since I'm single I don't know what the

 st> It's the "5 kids" part that pays off.  His catastrophic family cap is
 st> the  same as his deductible, so it doesn't pay to have extra coverage
 st> -- he'd be  paying for nothing.

 st> I'll be living near FT Bragg for the foreseeable future, and they are
 st> really  good about getting retired folks in to be seen. I've been
 st> there, visited the  facilities, and are familiar with what to expect. 

Offutt was that way, too.  And presumably it still is.  But the powers higher
up tell them how they're going to run their operation, and if there isn't any
money for it the program gets shut down.  Like the base education center, which
had classrooms and facilities for numerous local and distant college programs;
at 
one time the place was a beehive of activity, today it's more like a morgue,
with
the various colleges' offices and classes being closed out.  Remember I've been
here since 1972 and have seen a LOT of changes.  Since 2000, though, it seems
to be going rapidly downhill.

 st> Perhaps someday I'll move  away from a facility, and when that time
 st> comes, I'll deal with those new  issues at that time.

 >> Tricare premium would be for him but I suspect it'll be lower than any
 >> private civilian health care insurance.  I have Tricare Prime, and in
 >> 2004 I got back every cent I've paid into it until then and for
 >> probably the next 15 years - the hospital and physicians' bills
 >> totalled somewhere around $55K, of which my share was a whopping
 >> $33.00.

 st> WOW!

72 hours in a civilian intensive care unit, plus an angioplasty and stent
insertion
can do that.  Did do that ...

 >> It isn't at ALL what was promised.  BTW I bailed out 1983, just passed
 >> my 23rd anniversary of retirement.

 >> Haven't shopped in the exchange or commissary for decades.  And I'm too 
 >> far

 st> You're right.  It is what it is....  I shop at the commissary and I
 st> save  about 20% above the civilian places, so it's worth it to me.

Not around here.  The civilian prices are comparable to the commissary - and
when the commissary is lower it still isn't worth the 35 mile + a toll bridge
trip to get it.

 >> presumably GS but they may be contractors, I haven't asked; time was
 >> they  were *all* active duty military, in uniform.

 st> Same here.  It's about 2/3rds military and 1/3 civilian and the
 st> civilian  group is getting larger :)

A factoid that would seem to indicate a problem in recruiting and/or
retention.

 >> If nothing else it's great unemployment insurance.  In my case it makes
 >> the house payment and insurance (health, life and SBP) payments with a
 >> little bit left over.

 st> True....  It's "something" :)

 >> At the 16 year point I was so fed up with it I was ready to throw it
 >> all

 st> I've teetered back and forth many times on all of my enlistments.  I'm 
 st> retiring now at 20 <period>... :)

That assumes they'll let you out.  I hope they do, and good luck on it and in
the future.

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