And talk about denying coverage.  Every time I or any of the other lowly enlisted I knew had something wrong with them, you have to convince the doctor that your not lying to them to get out of doing some push-ups. It took me 9 months of going to the doctor every week, after I hurt my back, for them to authorize an x-ray, another 5 months after that for them to give me some muscle relaxers, and a couple more months after that for an MRI.
 I also broke my foot in the army. The army clinic said that their bone doctor was on vacation so I couldn't be seen at the clinic on post, so you'd think they would let you go off post and see a doctor, wrong.  I was told I had to wait 3 weeks for the doctor to return. I asked many times if I could go to the civilian hospital a 2 minute drive off post and was denied every time and told that the visit would be out of my own pocket.

Now with my health insurance I get sick I go to a doctor that believes that I'm telling the truth, and gives me an antibiotic to cure the sickness, instead of just motrin to make pain of the sickness go away with out actually getting rid of it.  My daughter broke her arm a month ago, she got an xray and a cast the very same day as she fell. She didn't have to wait 3 weeks to see a doctor thats on vacation, and if the doctor would have been on vacation, I would have gone to a different one and that would have been covered as well.