Individuals serving the country in the US Military generally are eligible for both a pension and free Tri-Care health care for life after twenty years of service.
Many of these retired military, both officers and non-officers, elect to work in the private sector after they retire.
Presently, these retired military working in the private sector get to use their free Tri-Care health care, even though their employer provides health insurance for their employees.
My recommendation here is that given the $16 trillion of US Debt, these retired military working in the private sector, who retired as military officers, should first be covered by the employers health insurance, and then for anything not covered here, the Tri-Care health insurance would be used as the secondary health insurance coverage.
The end result is that the military officer still gets complete health insurance coverage, it's just that the employer's insurance would be used first.
There should be substantial US Government cost savings from this recommended change.
