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Senators link higher TRICARE fees to health care gains
Sierra Vista Herald ^

Posted on 05/21/2016 7:22:42 AM PDT by SandRat

The Senate Armed Services Committee is embracing some TRICARE fee increases proposed by the Obama administration, particularly for working age retirees and their families. But it links those fee hikes to some surprising and long overdue improvements in patient access and quality of care.

This is a far different and seemingly less strained approach than adopted by the House, which would delay most TRICARE fee increases for a generation so they impact only persons who enter the military after 2017 and begin to retire after 20 years or more.

On TRICARE fees alone, military beneficiaries almost certainly would prefer that the House provisions prevail when a conference committee meets to iron out differences in the two versions of the fiscal 2017 defense authorization bill. But Democrats charge that the House only was able to defer hard decisions on military compensation by voting to fund just seven months of Iraq and Afghanistan war operations next year.


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1 posted on 05/21/2016 7:22:42 AM PDT by SandRat
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To: SandRat
Name Them. Time for a pre-emptive strikes


2 posted on 05/21/2016 7:32:17 AM PDT by darkwing104 (Forgive but don't forget)
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To: SandRat; SkyPilot; Jet Jaguar; Jim Robinson

Going after veterans again. Is that the only tune they know when it comes to cost cutting?

How about ObamaPhones?


3 posted on 05/21/2016 7:33:11 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: xzins

It’s past time for We The People to take names of those in Congress allowing this and get them out of office at the first opportunity.


4 posted on 05/21/2016 8:09:48 AM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: ExTexasRedhead

I’m sick of these people.

The truth is that it isn’t hard for the power brokers with vast sums of money to organize to control only 435 seats in the house and 100 seats in the Senate.

Even PRIMARYING a member will generally result, by the power broker’s design, in half a dozen or more competitors of which half or all are STILL their people.

With only 535 slots to worry about, these people can easily dedicate 1 million bucks to controlling the conversation and the candidates in that particular area.

The only way to overcome such moneyed elitism is with a true movement of people sick of it. A true movement could overturn the House in just 2 years. Replace them all. They are all suspect.


5 posted on 05/21/2016 8:20:44 AM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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They have Trillions for Illegal Invaders and Gibsmedats - but our veterans and military families have to suffer?


6 posted on 05/21/2016 8:25:54 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Replacing the House and Senate GOP leadership would be a good start.


7 posted on 05/21/2016 8:35:56 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: SandRat

Figures. I knew it was too good to be true.


8 posted on 05/21/2016 8:41:37 AM PDT by ozaukeemom (If we continue to divide, they will conquer!)
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To: SandRat

Funny how there are billions of dollars for illegals and importing thousands of Muslim refugees...


9 posted on 05/21/2016 9:33:34 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: SandRat

bump


10 posted on 05/21/2016 10:14:50 AM PDT by BlatherNaut
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To: SandRat

Americans need to put their foot down and FORCE the Turds on the Hill to pass a bill forbidding ALL politicians from raising any taxes or fees on the AMERICAN PEOPLE until they stop importing freeloading illegal aliens and “refugees” into OUR country. I know. I’m dreaming. How dumb of me.


11 posted on 05/21/2016 10:54:11 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Zero tolerance is the liberal way of saying zero common sense.)
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To: xzins

congratulations...
you have just arrived where I arrived during the second term of bushie....

we can control the numbers...
we can force them to listen to us..
but, it is a difficult road that ends in the number 15...

the vote right now is damn close to a dead wash, plus or minus 5 percentage points...

now if suddenly 15 to 30 percent went to independent candidates... well...

that throws the entire electoral process into the scrap heap..

now these here people actually NEED our votes...

and this is only the beginning...

music is math, life is math and politics is math...

put the math to work in your favor..


12 posted on 05/21/2016 1:42:33 PM PDT by joe fonebone (gay people do not bother me.... fags do...)
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To: SandRat; markomalley; DYngbld; TADSLOS; xsrdx; big'ol_freeper; Mark17; mikefive; JDoutrider; ...

TRICARE ping.

We call it “TRY to get CARE”.


13 posted on 05/21/2016 4:41:08 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Jet Jaguar

or Hillary Care


14 posted on 05/21/2016 4:44:40 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else needs said?)
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To: SandRat

“working age retirees and their families”

Meaning, “We promise you all kinds of shit if you’d just stay in one more enlistment, one more hitch, promise this, promise that, you can get out at 20 years, if you survive...”

Later.

Working age? Get to work, who the hell do you think you are, relying on government handouts, eh? You’re not democrat voters!!!


15 posted on 05/21/2016 4:58:52 PM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: Jet Jaguar; vette6387; ZULU; Doogle; Foolsgold; celtic gal; seekthetruth; flat; unkus; ...

Try to Get Care pertains to the entire country! DeathCare has destroyed our medical industry. Good doctors have retired rather than deal with the Liberal crapola. Third-world witch doctors are left. Appointments take 3 months depending on the specialty. All doctors do today is hand out prescriptions with garbage that cause side effects as bad as whatever you went there for. IMO, you’re better off treating yourself via Googling the Internet. Just saying!!


16 posted on 05/21/2016 5:38:50 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: ExTexasRedhead
Try to Get Care

LOL!

17 posted on 05/22/2016 4:45:39 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. --George Orwell)
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