In article , HeyBub wrote:
Don Klipstein wrote:
In , HeyBub wrote in
part:

The following active duty military personnel do not have insurance:

Army - 543,000
Marines - 158,000
Navy - 335,000
Air Force - 330,000
Total: 1,366,000

We're up to about 25 million already without even considering those
who decline to enroll in an available insurance program.

Is that not 1,366,000 covered by the gubmint, no more inunsured than
those on Medicare and Medicaid?

I guess it depends on how you define "insurance."

In the military, if you get slightly injured (anything less than the bone
sticking out), the medic or the corpsman fixes you up. This is not much
different than the role of the company nurse.

And if they get an illness requiring treatment, they get treated. These
people have medics and corpsmen and do get transported to hospitals when
it is necessary and possible to do so. They are not among the uncovered
roughly 13% of USA's population that are citizens or legal residents.

- Don Klipstein )