This is also aimed at us retirees who gave their all and then were promised a lifetime of “free” on base medical care...Many TEA party activists are/were military retirees.
My Tricare is a very good deal and I’m glad for it, even though as I re-upped each time I was assured I would have free medical...
If my country needs it, I will even forgo it if it helps and they have no money, but Obama is the same clown giving out free cell phones to lazabouts and welfare ne’er do wells??? Cut that crap first.
God in Heaven, bring November soon!
but Obama is the same clown giving out free cell phones to lazabouts and welfare ne’er do wells??? Cut that crap first.
Excuse me but why, in God’s name, would you even contemplate giving up a promised benefit that makes up for all the lost earning power, home security, family stability and the like if the idiots who run the country need your benefit to pull themselves out of a whole they dug giving food stamps, handouts to greenieacs, and the like.
Sorry but anyone who has sacrificed themselves, their family and their earning power for their country deserves to be at the head of the line....
“God in Heaven, bring November soon!”
I know, 130 days seems like a century right now.
Barry and his friends at the Pentagon are incensed that military retirees actually expect them to keep their promises. When I enlisted in 1981, I was also promised free, on-base care for the rest of my life. By the time a retired two decades later, that promise was long-gone, and we were stuck with Tri-Care. I’m grateful that I still have healthcare, but it’s far from the Cadillac plans that many state and local government employees enjoy, or (for that matter) the plan that covers retired federal civil servants.
True, Tri-Care hasn’t see a fee increase since 1994, but a little perspective is in order. Most retirees are in Tri-Care Standard, which carries a 20% co-pay for most procedures. If you don’t have an additional policy, that expense comes out of your pocket. And, if you do have another policy, that becomes your primary, with Tri-Care picking up what’s left.
All of these considerations are very important when you consider that the “average” military retiree leaves the service as an E-6 (Technical Sergeant in the Air Force, Staff Sergeant in the Army, Petty Officer First Class in the Navy) with an after-tax pension of about $1,600 a month. For every retired General and Colonel who are looking for tax shelters, there are 20 retired E-6s who are struggling to get by, and can’t afford the Tri-Care fee increases that are on the way.
The Obama plan isn’t very hard to figure out. Many retirees who rely on health insurance from their “civilian” jobs will lose those plans under Obamacare. That will push us into the exchanges for additional coverage, until private insurers get out of the business altogether. At that point, we’ll be pushed into Obamacare, and Tri-Care will be cancelled altogether. That will save the Pentagon billions. Anyone who doesn’t believe DoD won’t sell us down the river (again) is sadly mistaken.