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If your 100% then it does not matter which hospital you go to....you will be taken care of....right?
As a military-retiree he will be taken care of at any hospital anywhere, even without being 100% disabled. I think his concern is for his son, who is not a retiree.
As a military-retiree he will be taken care of at any hospital anywhere, even without being 100% disabled. I think his concern is for his son, who is not a retiree.
This is getting tedious, my son is NOT a retiree, I am. Both of us are 100%
My concern is being close enough to a VA Hospital that an Ambulance responding to a 911 call for him will take him to the VA, not some other facility that would then transfer him to a VA facility
My dad retired from the navy and lives close to Dayton, Ohio, which has a very reasonable cost of living. He and my mom get all of their medical work done at Wright Patterson AFB, which is a very large and local air force base. Texas also has a reasonable cost of living.
As a retiree, I don’t depend on a military base anymore. I find Wal-Mart less for food and merchandise than the Commissary\BX and my healthcare is farmed out with Tricare Prime. Plus, my prescriptions are mailed to me. I choose to live in a warm climate (Austin, TX) where I can wear flip flops and shorts all year long and hang out at my pool. Austin costs more than others cities in TX, but well worth the amenities it has to offer. Plus, it's always on the top 10 places to live lists.
Waco, TX
Oklahoma City, OK
Austin/Round Rock, TX
College Station/Bryan, TX
Harrisburg/Carlisle, PA
San Angelo, TX
Madison, WI
Pittsburgh, PA
New Orleans/Metairie/Kenner, LA
Syracuse, NY
USAA first-of-its-kind ranking that recognizes the best places in the nation for military men and women to reside after retiring from their first career with the armed forces and beginning their second career as a civilian. The rankings are a resource to help military retirees find locales offering a high quality of life while making the most of military retiree benefits.
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USAA first-of-its-kind ranking
I think it is cool that USAA has finely decided to flip their policy and begin to support US servicemembers. Which is about time.
I think their criteria for this ranking is totally wrong.
'Military base proximity' means your stuck using on-base medical facilities. Living far from base instead allows any military retiree to seek medical treatment from DOCTORS who have actually graduated college and medical school. No more corpsmen.
Recreation, climate, universities, art/culture, VA hospitals, airports, mass transit are everywhere.
Health resources as I said are far better elsewhere.
Affordability, and housing costs; they are focusing on employment. But what retirees need is depressed economies. A pension goes further, buys MORE, in an area where more people are out of work [or where wages are low], not where everyone is employed at high wage.
Interesting. Because the top places I would have picked are not on that list. I would have picked Las Vegas, no state income tax, new VA hospital, excellent buys on homes there now, and Nellis AFB with a large PX. Lots of jobs with military contracors too, government jobs at Indian Springs, good paying, requires TS clearance.
Another place I would have picked is South Florida, for the same reasons as above.
Cheap flights to many areas of the country from both. Good health care network with Tri-Careproviders.
The LAST place I would personally go is New Orleans. I am also surprised Biloxi did not make the list.
'Military base proximity' means your stuck using on-base medical facilities. Living far from base instead allows any military retiree to seek medical treatment from DOCTORS who have actually graduated college and medical school. No more corpsmen.
I am retired military, used military facilities for about 7 years here in Albuquerque. We were refereed to a variety of specialists, real doctors during that period. But we switched to a regular civilian hospital about 4 years ago. Pretty much my choice of doctors. Be we get the majority of our prescriptions free from the military pharmacy. Never once saw a "corpsmen" in the past 20+ years I have been retired. I wouldgo back to the military facility except that they are not accepting retiree's...
I am retired military, used military facilities for about 7 years here in Albuquerque. We were refereed to a variety of specialists, real doctors during that period. But we switched to a regular civilian hospital about 4 years ago. Pretty much my choice of doctors. Be we get the majority of our prescriptions free from the military pharmacy. Never once saw a "corpsmen" in the past 20+ years I have been retired. I wouldgo back to the military facility except that they are not accepting retiree's...
Rich
When I retired in 2001, we lived near a Navy base. We were treated on-base, the same as when I had been on Active Duty.
We moved away from there in 2005. Now we can go to any hospital, and we are seen by real doctors. This [moving away from military bases] has been a huge difference for us.
Yes, of course we get our scripts from the mail-order pharmacy.
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