Too late to demand anything...but we know
Welcome Home brother...lets just enjoy that we are here!
(rants are good for us u know!..it’s called venting!!!
Big Picture..........it all works out in the end IMHO!)
Too late to demand anything...but we know
Welcome Home brother...lets just enjoy that we are here!
(rants are good for us u know!..it’s called venting!!!
Big Picture..........it all works out in the end IMHO!)
I look at what this president has done in two short years and feel sick. Senior citizens are thought of as parasites, the handicapped are thought of people to be disposed of, now veterans are not entitled to what has been promised to them and what they have earned. How sick is this? We can give billions to foreign nations that despise us. Billions of dollars are spent on grants, aid and comfort for illegals. . . anything to buy votes.
It's almost as if this current administration is taunting all of us to rise-up against them. Don't let it rile you, I am a senior and have never felt more helpless, but I'm practicing patience because I know that this nation will prevail. Only two more years to go. We're in this together.
Toll-Free number to the Congressional Switchboard
(866) 338-1015
Medicare and Tricare to merge?
John Taylor, Veterans Advocate
http://www.575magazine.com/military/veterans/JohnTaylor/medicaretricaremerge.html
TRI CARE FOR LIFE This from a google search:
http://economicspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/05/tricare-for-life-is-obama-trying-to.html
This option would help reduce the costs of TFL, as well as costs for Medicare, by introducing minimum out-of pocket requirements for beneficiaries. Under this option, TFL would not cover any of the first $525 of an enrollee’s cost-sharing liabilities for calendar year 2011 and would limit coverage to 50 percent of the next $4,725 in Medicare cost sharing that the beneficiary incurred. (Because all further cost sharing would be covered by TFL, enrollees could not pay more than $2,888 in cost sharing in that year.) http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9925/12-18-HealthOptions.pdf
http://www.vawatchdog.org/09/hcva09/hcva110609-1.htm
Bill Would Restrict Veterans’ Health Care Options 11/06/09
Buyer and McKeon Offer Amendments to Protect Veterans and TRICARE Beneficiaries
Congress plans to block Tricare fee increases
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w/
By Rick Maze - Staff writer, Oct 7, 2009
Tricare fee increases imposed last week by the Defense Department will be repealed by a provision of the compromise 2010 defense authorization bill unveiled Wednesday by House and Senate negotiators.
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The fee increases were announced on Sept. 30 and took effect on Oct. 1, but the defense bill, HR 2647, includes a provision barring any fee increases until the start of fiscal 2011.
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Retired Army Maj. Gen. Bill Matz, president of the National Association for Uniformed Services, said the announcement of fee increases was shocking considering that the Obama administration promised earlier this year to hold off on any new fee Tricare fee increases until fiscal 2011.
“President Obama and DoD assured NAUS and the entire military family earlier this year that there would rightly be no increases in any Tricare fees” in fiscal 2010, Matz said. “We took them at their word, and I can’t believe that a co-pay increase like this was allowed to go forward,” he added.
PENTAGON CONSIDERS HEALTHCARE FEE INCREASE FOR MILITARY... DEVELOPING...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2634150/posts
This is the article Drudge is siting.
Gates Seeking to Contain Miltary Health Cost (TRICARE)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/29/us/29tricare.html
Links from the FR Thread
newest proposal
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2010/11/military-debt-commission-recommendations-111010w/?sms_ss=facebook&at_xt=4ce34e2da0c73365,0
He’s been after the military from the get go - basta*d
Old one
American Legion commander “angered” after meeting Obama
http://hotair.com/archives/2009/03/16/american-legion-commander-angered-after-meeting-obama/
scroll down for John Stewart video on it
http://themoderatevoice.com/27210/jon-stewart-rips-obama-on-troop-insurance/
Now, how WILL they get people to reenlist without the cookies?
Maybe they could ORDER first termers to re-up. Or better yet, a general order that says you have to sign up for a twenty-year hitch. With no retirement, natch, until if you reach 60. There, that's the ticket!
Next, we go to our local recruiter's office. (crickets) (cobwebs) (a two foot beard on said recruiter)....