re: #332 Kruk

Apologies for the string of healthcare questions, but is it possible for a person to be on VA healthcare and Medicaid? I can’t find anything on this online.

I’m working this from my FIL’s experience. He is a recently-deceased retiree. The VA system is largely hospital-based, with some aspects of retirement care. Its major function right now, however is to care for the large numbers of severely wounded returning from SWA. They have obvious priority. The system has had a mixed reputation, but is said now to have become what it always should have been.
“Medicaid” is limited and targeted at the very low income part of the population, in contrast to “Medicare” which is related to Social Security, thus heavily age-related. I would hope military retirees would not be indigent enough to be Medicaid-eligible, but can’t say it wouldn’t happen.