[Patriotpride16t]

How the hell is he still alive?!

[fruitbatz]

Id rather die. I didnt know half his brain was gone.

[Prettykitty]

I had to pull the plug on my fiance. It's hard to do, but necessary sometimes. Guaranteed this dude would rather be dead.

[RealityUnfolding]

Originally Posted by trollbridge ↗

In regards to monetary settlements if you are talking about tricare or military medical care, tricare only covers service related disability or related illnesses without cost. Even if you served 20 years and retired with tricare for life, in a case like this where there is 3rd party responsibility tricare ( the VA hospital in this case) will expect to get reimbursed out of the settlement. So whatever the family got it will be reduced by medical costs.

Because he was still active duty (in transition to reserves but had been activated and had an upcoming ToD - which is why he was treated at the VA here), his costs were covered until the move is made for him to leave service. I don't know what experiences you have, but Tricare covers ALL medical incidents for active duty troops. If my husband is in a car accident, they cover his costs - even if he was drunk driving and ran into a ravine. The military CAN make moves to recover money but it's not likely, costs more to get from something from someone who has no earning capacity.

Tricare will get reimbursed only to a point but they still pay all the costs up front, until the point is settled, his state is determined and he is officially discharged. At that point, they will take some from the settlement that was put aside for medical from the date of the accident until the date of the settlement, but the costs are all paid for by Tricare from the start and they never came close to recovering the millions spent at the VA to treat him, versus what the settlement came out to be. John would then move to the regular disability dole in the US. Right now, the mother gets also gets a stipend from the government for being an "in-home care nurse" to a disabled person.

[RealityUnfolding]

Originally Posted by whatsup ↗

he was in a mild coma hes mother took him home hes walking talking but forever in a state of brain damge..that's sad

He isn't walking or talking. His organs are - for all intents and purposes - being reanimated by machines. He has zero autonomous function. He's not in a "mild coma" either.

[GrumpyJack]

Wear that seatbelt.. Unbelievable

[Bronte1068]

They should make Nick Hogan be his care taker.

[AliceInChains]

From everything I've seen and heard of him, having Nick Hogan as a caretaker would *literally* be a fate worse than death.

[BiothDaSloth]

Typical spoiled douche (Hogan). Too bad for his friend.

[Spiritual]

Pretty messed up, I never was a fan of the Hogans... What is with all these 80s and 90s has beens getting retarded reality shows, with their dysfunctional spoilt brats?