Dude, lighten up. He’s not talking about vets he’s talking about the numerous non-military (ab)users of TRICARE Prime.
Disabled service members receive medical care from the Veterans Administration. I rate the VA as good or better than TRICARE. I’m a Line-of-Duty disable vet btw.
There’s nothing wrong with limiting TRICARE Prime to active duty and dependents.
You wouldn’t believe all the fed. civilians and dependents sucking on that teat now.
How is that free healthcare for life promise working out for you?
If you are a wounded veteran, but don't have a disability rating over 50%, then you can kiss goodbye the VA taking care of you. Oh, and even if you had 50% or greater rating, your family can go to hell as far as they are concerned.
Oh, let's mix it even more. If you have disabilities that add up to 50% using simple math, you soon discover the VA does a little "cheat" there and recalculates your disability at a lower rating.
There are a lot of leeches using USAA for insurance also - I don't want my rates going up with the promise that we'll get the leeches off. Where is the logic in that?! There isn't any!
Moreover, let's take disabled vets out of the equation: they were STILL lied to about their health care before TRICARE, they were lied to when TRICARE was implemented, and now they are being lied to again as TRICARE sucks more dollars out of them.
And all of this is a "good" thing because........?
It won't make a dent in the deficit. If any citizens deserve to be exempt from the "cuts", it is military veterans. But, guess what? Politics rears its ugly head again. There are a lot, lot, lot more grannies getting SS checks and signed up for Medicare than you, I, or other veterans.
Take a wild one about which group the Washington weasels cut?