Of course. Nobody is going to lie about being a cook onboard a mostly diplomatic ship in western europe 😂

he was calling Vanessa a whore

So in this free speech utopia we have going on here

What do people do about people like that?

Just mute?

You out them for being degenerates in society

i was trying to debate him on free healthcare then he started that and initially i thought he was just trolling. but he went hard trying to justify being a vet

Diabetus is expensive

can't blame him

I tried that too. I don’t care if healthcare would be cheaper under Universal health care. I want to be responsible for my own healthcare. And my plan has no effect on him. But his plan necessitates stealing my money to pay for his insulin

But then he called me brainwashed instead if debating the point so I left.

Im too old to waste time on foolishness

Not old enough to have nothing better to do

Lol fair enough.

How do you feel about TRICARE, vets? I used to work on it for DoD as a civilian contractor

Healthcare will actually promote health if its costs aren't subsidized. Rather than promote treatment.

I don't really know shit about Tricare, but I accept government programs for soldiers as part of their benefit package. The actual inner workings are more of a budget question than principle point.

I worked in both epidemiology and healthcare economics (as a supporting programmer) for nearly a decade. It’s a topic Im really interested in having real discussions over

Well its bankrupting DoD. Something like 1/3-1/2 of the enitre defense budget is now tricare

The administration of TRICARE is also a retirement farm for officers

Entire Defense budget or discretionary?

I imagine it isn't Discretionary tho

I’ll have to look that up. I want to say entire but I can’t commit to that claim

Something like 1/3-1/2 of the enitre defense budget is now tricare

Is that true?

Hold on let me make sure I got that right

Even if it is true, I'm not sure what the appropriate number would be expected to be. Especially considering the internal costs of TRICARE will necessarily reflect the general costs of Healthcare, which we have caused to skyrocket.

So all personnel costs are over 1/2 but that includes VA

I think most service industries in the private sector hover around 50% of costs as labor costs.

Tricare includes suplemental health care not VA or actual mil health care right?

So that seems reasonable

I found 52B earlier.

Yeah TRICARE is active dity

Duty

VA is for the vets

TRICARE covers reserves too. Ok looks like Im misinformed. Its $52B which is 10% of the entire defense budget. According to mercatus center

Im not sure where I heard 1/3-1/2. Maybe it was calculated differently

Including the VA or some other commitments to perssonel

Well that could include all health care

Which sounds reasonable.

Plus I dont know if 52B include staff costs or just the base med costs.