Posted on 12/24/2014 11:05:49 AM PST by NKP_Vet
Yeah, who didn’t see this coming; budget experts at the Pentagon say that the Department of Defense could save butt loads of money if they forced military retirees into Obamacare. We know that, but it’s not keeping faith with veterans who fulfilled their obligations depending on the government to keep their end up. From the Army Times;
[T]he budget analysts said the Defense Department could realize tremendous savings if it tapped into the resources offered by the general, civilian health care system and coverage available through federal or state exchanges.
“It’s a little radical, but should we be thinking about how some of the military system might transition some of their people to the Affordable Care Act exchanges, especially in sparsely populated areas of the country?” said Alice Rivlin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office and the Office of Management and Budget who now serves as a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution.
Some of you told me that I was crazy when I warned about this in 2008 before the election. There was a reason that they pumped so much money into the VA, so they could drive us away from Tricare. The Obama Administration claimed that they wanted to make healthcare cheaper for the entire country when they introduced Obamacare – well, everyone except veterans.
John Mayer, a military health and energy analyst with Booz Allen Hamilton, added the Pentagon should be under no obligation to continue providing “free health” care to those who have retired from military service and have access to health care either through their employers or the Affordable Care Act.
“Having a program where they can go in and get free health care, and do it as often as they want seems to be a burden that the American public shouldn’t have to bear,” Mayer said, speaking of the military retiree population who uses Tricare.
I absolutely challenge him to say the same about Medicaid or Medicare. Some of us made life decisions based on promises that the government had no intention to keep.
Thanks!
TFL sort of works that way Medicare will pay 80% and TFL pays the remainder and also will pay for Meds through Express Scripts.
Thank you.
excellent!
“Thank you.”
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Yea, I thought about that when I was mobilized.
Some background:
http://militaryadvantage.military.com/2012/05/is-there-a-promise-of-free-health-care-for-life/
Only promises made to Left-leaning interest groups are sacrosanct, and must be kept, at all costs. Promises made to Right-leaning groups, like veterans and business-owners and the middle class, are all expendable.
It's the only way out of the unsupportable program "entitlements" the government has instituted.
It was the plan all along. We’ve been Grubered too.
It won’t happen this decade, but if 0bama care is still around in the 20s, all gov’t related health programs will be rolled into 0bamacare.
It will start with a name change only, then a total dump of the old system.
This is why it is imperative the whole 0care needs to be abolished, AND no dems get to the white hut or a majority in congress.
I think they have given up on that already. Apparently, they were shocked to learn that they could not afford it and couldn't get away with raising taxes that much even in Vermont.
BOHICA
Tricare for “life”?
Whose “life”?
Is it time yet?
I’m shocked.
Veterans, just get in line 19 places behind the illiterate illegal alien families who are Priority One.
“Tricare for “life”?
Whose “life”?
Is it time yet?”
Tricare-for-life, yep that’s what they call it.
Because the public wont be bearing a burden in healthcare costs for Obamacare.... Right...
NO, NO., NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!!!!
I am on tri care for life, being over 65, however medicare is the first payee, I am lucky I can go to the Navy Medical Center In San Diego, and don’t have to deal with that...yet
Thanks and God bless!
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