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Hey so I'm in a bit of a weird spot.
I've aged out of my parent's TRICARE coverage as I will be 23 in a few days, but I still have one semester left of college (took the 5 year option for my engineering degree). I'm looking for some healthcare I can get until I go on active duty and qualify for tricare again.
My AFSC is Cyber and my current EAD is Sept 30, 2017 which is probably a placeholder since most ppl I know received that date, HOWEVER the pipeline of Cyber seems to be 1-4 month wait time which is relatively quick so I anticipate only needing to pay for a civilian health care service from now until September or October at the latest anyways.
Does anyone have any advice on what I should get for 9-10 months? It feels weird being without coverage and kinda stupid to just go without it for all that time. Im looking at different services and it's not very helpful b/c they assume that if i am a student i can stay on my parent's until im 26, yet the tricare option for young adults has different rules and assumes that at 23 im an adult with a reasonable income but I'm still living that "poor" student's life. Tricare's 23+ dependant option also seems pretty expensive, at over $200/month but ive never paid for healthcare so i can't gauge how normal that is
I've aged out of my parent's TRICARE coverage as I will be 23 in a few days, but I still have one semester left of college (took the 5 year option for my engineering degree). I'm looking for some healthcare I can get until I go on active duty and qualify for tricare again.
My AFSC is Cyber and my current EAD is Sept 30, 2017 which is probably a placeholder since most ppl I know received that date, HOWEVER the pipeline of Cyber seems to be 1-4 month wait time which is relatively quick so I anticipate only needing to pay for a civilian health care service from now until September or October at the latest anyways.
Does anyone have any advice on what I should get for 9-10 months? It feels weird being without coverage and kinda stupid to just go without it for all that time. Im looking at different services and it's not very helpful b/c they assume that if i am a student i can stay on my parent's until im 26, yet the tricare option for young adults has different rules and assumes that at 23 im an adult with a reasonable income but I'm still living that "poor" student's life. Tricare's 23+ dependant option also seems pretty expensive, at over $200/month but ive never paid for healthcare so i can't gauge how normal that is