[Vision2020] Active Military Health Insurance (ca. 1918)

[Ron Force]

It was primarily life insurance. After the war, it was expanded to cover treatment and rehabilitation of service-incurred disabilities..

http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/faqs/Personal-Finance/Pages/insurance.aspx 


http://www.va.gov/opa/publications/archives/docs/history_in_brief.pdf  p.7





 
Ron Force
Moscow Idaho USA


________________________________
 From: Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com>
To: Moscow Vision 2020 <vision2020 at moscow.com> 
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2012 10:09 AM
Subject: [Vision2020] Active Military Health Insurance (ca. 1918)
 
As I was digging (literally) through old (as in VERY) documents and photos related to my maternal grandparents, I came across my grandfather's Army health insurance card issued to him in 1918 just before he went to Europe.

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From that . . . to CHAMPUS . . . to Tri-Care.

Thank God for government health insurance!

Seeya at the polls, Moscow, because . . .

"Moscow Cares"
http://www.MoscowCares.com
  
Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students.  The college students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."

- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)

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