Being retired military, I have been enjoying the benefits of universal healthcare since 1968. At age 65, I was required to subscribe to Medicare B as primary insurer. The rest of the bill is picked up by DOD Tricare - co-pays, fees, everything. I go to local doctors, my medication is free, and I even have had surgery at Mayo Clinic to co…
Being retired military, I have been enjoying the benefits of universal healthcare since 1968. At age 65, I was required to subscribe to Medicare B as primary insurer. The rest of the bill is picked up by DOD Tricare - co-pays, fees, everything. I go to local doctors, my medication is free, and I even have had surgery at Mayo Clinic to correct a botch operation by a local doctor.
Oddly, I have to get my hearing aids (issued on active duty) from the VA. That has become annoying because the MAGAs have cut VA funding so much that they are short-handed and appointments rarely can be made sooner than 3 months out - validation of Thom's slam at the GOP's private sector efficiency mythology.
Another oddity is that I, like all Americans, have to have private dental insurance because, again, the GOP asserts that all dental surgery is cosmetic, like a haircut, and thus is not essential medical care. Visit any trailer park and you will see that most of those low-income residents have toothless smiles despite fluoride in their drinking water - soon to be stopped by Wormbrain Kennedy.
I too have Tricare for life, Tom as does my wife. She gets here meds via Express Scripts for a nominal co pay
I have two sets of VA provided hearing aids. After 2 years I became eligible for an upgrade, and they are the latest and best, they also will provide ancillary devices which a person, like your doctor, can hold and a device to help hear TV. I'm waiting for those.
A lot of those toothless smiles are from meth addicts, not sure if it is the meth or the fact that they don't brush their teeth.
Benefeds, available to Tricare recipients cover vision and dental, but the costs aren't worth it, especially for vision.
I am disappointed in you for saying, "A lot of those toothless smiles are from meth addicts, not sure if it is the meth or the fact that they don't brush their teeth"
I had no dental coverage for my children (no health insurance either), and a couple of them have awful teeth and have never had dental insurance to this day. Victim blaming doesn't become you.
In this country, teeth, ears, and eyes aren't considered part of the body. The brain isn't considered part of the body either, except for strokes and brain tumors, so when it doesn't work right, we often blame the victim.
I have paid what I could afford for my children's teeth when they were children and as adults. None of them ever used methamphetamines. Just try getting a job when you have broken or discolored teeth, then blame toothless people for not working.
I am sorry you are disappointed in me Gloria, but pleasedon't personalize the impersonal.
I wear dentures. I was raised by a single Mon in a government project, she was too busy trying to earn a living and wrapped up in her own misery to provide us supervision. I never developed the habit of brushing my teeth (combined with cigarette smoking I must have had some bad halitosis). My wife on the other hand was taught to brush her teeth, she has had some fillings and a cap on one tooth, but her rigorous brusing plus Xylitol Chewing gum, has kept her cavity free for going on 20 years..
Please resist the temptation to personalize the impersonal. Fact is that I know of, and even knew some meth heads and their teeth are indeed rotted.
The property I own, the house I am living in was bought at a "fire sale" (no one else wanted it, because the renters had a meth lab in a trailer in the barn.
The owner was forced,by circumstances, to sell, because she couldn't even get renters and wound up having to pay two mortgages at once.
Being retired military, I have been enjoying the benefits of universal healthcare since 1968. At age 65, I was required to subscribe to Medicare B as primary insurer. The rest of the bill is picked up by DOD Tricare - co-pays, fees, everything. I go to local doctors, my medication is free, and I even have had surgery at Mayo Clinic to correct a botch operation by a local doctor.
Oddly, I have to get my hearing aids (issued on active duty) from the VA. That has become annoying because the MAGAs have cut VA funding so much that they are short-handed and appointments rarely can be made sooner than 3 months out - validation of Thom's slam at the GOP's private sector efficiency mythology.
Another oddity is that I, like all Americans, have to have private dental insurance because, again, the GOP asserts that all dental surgery is cosmetic, like a haircut, and thus is not essential medical care. Visit any trailer park and you will see that most of those low-income residents have toothless smiles despite fluoride in their drinking water - soon to be stopped by Wormbrain Kennedy.
I too have Tricare for life, Tom as does my wife. She gets here meds via Express Scripts for a nominal co pay
I have two sets of VA provided hearing aids. After 2 years I became eligible for an upgrade, and they are the latest and best, they also will provide ancillary devices which a person, like your doctor, can hold and a device to help hear TV. I'm waiting for those.
A lot of those toothless smiles are from meth addicts, not sure if it is the meth or the fact that they don't brush their teeth.
Benefeds, available to Tricare recipients cover vision and dental, but the costs aren't worth it, especially for vision.
I am disappointed in you for saying, "A lot of those toothless smiles are from meth addicts, not sure if it is the meth or the fact that they don't brush their teeth"
I had no dental coverage for my children (no health insurance either), and a couple of them have awful teeth and have never had dental insurance to this day. Victim blaming doesn't become you.
In this country, teeth, ears, and eyes aren't considered part of the body. The brain isn't considered part of the body either, except for strokes and brain tumors, so when it doesn't work right, we often blame the victim.
I have paid what I could afford for my children's teeth when they were children and as adults. None of them ever used methamphetamines. Just try getting a job when you have broken or discolored teeth, then blame toothless people for not working.
Im my case, probably Agent Orange.
I am sorry you are disappointed in me Gloria, but pleasedon't personalize the impersonal.
I wear dentures. I was raised by a single Mon in a government project, she was too busy trying to earn a living and wrapped up in her own misery to provide us supervision. I never developed the habit of brushing my teeth (combined with cigarette smoking I must have had some bad halitosis). My wife on the other hand was taught to brush her teeth, she has had some fillings and a cap on one tooth, but her rigorous brusing plus Xylitol Chewing gum, has kept her cavity free for going on 20 years..
Please resist the temptation to personalize the impersonal. Fact is that I know of, and even knew some meth heads and their teeth are indeed rotted.
The property I own, the house I am living in was bought at a "fire sale" (no one else wanted it, because the renters had a meth lab in a trailer in the barn.
The owner was forced,by circumstances, to sell, because she couldn't even get renters and wound up having to pay two mortgages at once.
And by the way I am disappointed in you and your comment to that Putin asset Barry. I had no idea you were a fan of a Putin asset.
Me too. Except my husband was the one who served 20 years in the Navy.