EARN MORE
FAITH [CONTINUED FROM PAGE 75] along the lines we’re missing the RETURN FROM
boat. And DoD tends to miss the
YOUR INVESTMENT
So I go to four different doctors for boat in that the doctors that [will be]
medicines for my son. there today are not the doctors that
The
Then they try to use the mail- are there tomorrow. They’re always
[order] system. You have to be there rotating. They’re always moving.
GARRISON
to receive some of these medicines, And once that all gets settled
because they are ones you have to out and the patient gets transferred
Way
sign for. There’s nobody at my house, from DoD to the VA system, again,
Why are a growing number of
and then they go back in the system. the seamless transition is not there. retired officers opening bank
So now I’m running to the VA all So we’re reinventing the wheel, and accounts offshore? The reasons
the time just to get the meds that he [the patient has] been screened and are simple: profit and privacy.
needs and contacting four different looked at, and [has] this patient, who The concept of owning a
doctors to be able to try to get them. has traumatic physical injuries and
bank account in a foreign
It’s just a nightmare, and there is amputations, [also] been screened for
country used to be perceived
no way he could ever manage just his TBI [and] PTSD?
as a mysterious and exotic
pills on a day-to-day basis. Some of All those things, at my level, we do
financial strategy available
them are very tiny, and you [have] to lose quite a bit of that, and we need
only to the very wealthy.
cut them in half because of the dos- to refocus and put people as surro-
While that may have been
age they prescribe is half of a little gates and again [have] the advocacy
true in the past, modern tech-
pill, and there’s absolutely no way he to simplify this process.
nology in the form of the
could ever do this on his own. So I
computer and instantaneous
communication around the
would love just a few [points of con- Bunce: I think the screening both in
world, has made the benefits
tact]. That would make life easier. the military and then the transition to
of what has become known as
the VA is absolutely essential.
“Offshore Banking” available to
Cmdr. Michael Jackonis: I’m a com- Having that screening process
anyone seeking
mander, Navy JAG Corps retired, and and a re-screening process as they
until last summer I was the staff judge get better is also important. [My PROFIT PRIVACY
advocate at National Naval Medical son] has made dramatic improve-
It’s time for you to investigate...
Center, Bethesda, Md. ments, and they told me I would
My question is for both Colonel never see anything really past the
Bunce as a parent and Commander fi rst year, maybe out to 18 months,
Jadick as a provider. Do you believe beyond that, no.
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