{"id":3110,"date":"2013-02-11T13:31:13","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T18:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=3110"},"modified":"2013-02-11T13:34:20","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T18:34:20","slug":"navy-seal-lost-health-insurance-after-killing-osama-bin-laden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/02\/navy-seal-lost-health-insurance-after-killing-osama-bin-laden\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy SEAL lost health insurance after killing Osama bin Laden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2013\/01\/report-u-s-health-spending-grew-at-record-slow-pace-for-third-consecutive-year\/health-caduceus_logo_blue\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2928\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2928\" alt=\"health-caduceus_logo_blue\" src=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/health-caduceus_logo_blue-262x300.png\" width=\"183\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/health-caduceus_logo_blue-262x300.png 262w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/health-caduceus_logo_blue-131x150.png 131w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/health-caduceus_logo_blue-400x457.png 400w, http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/health-caduceus_logo_blue.png 481w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI left SEALs on Friday,\u201d he said the next time I saw him. It was a little more than thirty-six months before the official retirement requirement of twenty years of service. \u201cMy health care for me and my family stopped at midnight Friday night. I asked if there was some transition from my Tricare to Blue Cross Blue Shield. They said no. You\u2019re out of the service, your coverage is over. Thanks for your sixteen years. Go [f&#8211;k] yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the\u00a0Esquire\u00a0story explains, Tricare (the health insurance program that covers military service members and their families) does provide 180 days of transitional health insurance \u201c\u00a0but the Shooter is eligible only if he agrees to remain on active duty \u201cin a support role,\u201d or become a reservist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Shooter is purchasing a private health insurance plan for $486 per month, which does not cover some of his treatments (chiropractic care, for example, costs $120 weekly,\u00a0Esquire\u00a0reports).<\/p>\n<p>There are lots of military veterans who lose coverage, and don\u2019t buy their own plan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE:\u00a0<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2013\/02\/11\/the-navy-seal-who-killed-osama-bin-laden-is-now-uninsured\/\" target=\"_blank\">Navy SEAL lost health insurance after killing Osama bin Laden<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u201cI left SEALs on Friday,\u201d he said the next time I saw him. It was a little more than thirty-six months before the official retirement requirement of twenty years of service. \u201cMy health care for me and my family stopped at midnight Friday night. I asked if there was some transition from my Tricare&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[1644,65,1645],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3111,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3110\/revisions\/3111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}