From a reader: DoD’s Philippine Tricare, I am told, has ZERO employees
actually in the Philippines. Not one single Tricare mgt rep. Unlike Germany and
Japan, this former US Territory has no US military bases, no US base hospitals,
yet it has the second largest out-CONUS population of US Milrets on earth; most
are Filipinos who served careers in the US Armed Forces. Neither the Manila US
VA clinic, nor the US Embassy (which locally contracts its own employee healthcare)
are available to Milrets. --- IT IS SHEER IDIOCY to believe you can manage a US
DoD healthcare system in the Third World from oceans away via occasional visits
and Emails. And it doesn’t take a wizard to figure out that if Tricare isn’t
listening to Milrets in the Philippines, that’s probably because Tricare isn’t
in the Philippines. --- Unless DoD’s goal is to design an unusable system that
reduces claims on the hope that Military Retirees evaporate, “step one” is for
DoD to demand its Tricare management put boots on the ground in the Philippines
and keeps them there.
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