Universal Health Care and the military

What will Universal Health Coverage do to our all-volunteer military?
Has anyone done a study on how providing universal health coverage will affect the enlistment/retention rate of our military? I know that my family, and several others in our unit, stay in the military mainly because of the benefits. The pay isn't great, but when you have kids the free health care is a great benefit.

If I knew that when my husband got out we could have universal coverage for our kids then he probably wouldn't reenlist, and I would estimate that at least 3/4 of the people we know base their reenlistment decisions on things like that (Tricare coverage, bonuses, housing). So if everyone had universal coverage then Tricare wouldn't be such a great benefit so the military would have to come up with other, better, incentives to keep their military personnel with families. Have any of the candidates addressed that or is the Pentagon concerned with this yet?

I'm not sure what the 2nd poster is saying. We don't live on post right now anyways. As for taxes, we pay them now. If taxes go up to provide universal coverage for everyone then we will have to pay those taxes as well - even though we already get healthcare. So my point is that we will be paying for universal coverage anyways, what's to keep us in the military? Tricare is always touted as a great benefit, what will they offer when/if universal coverage negates that benefit?

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