I do know the Tea Party Republicans are aware of the Entitlement mess, and some of them really tried to attack the beast.
They failed. The Democrats won.
Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security are exempt from ANY cutbacks - and military and veterans programs are thrown under the bus.
It's just the way it is. There is no sense in lying to ourselves about it. There is no outrage, and there will be one.
There are no more Budweiser commercials showing an adoring crowd in the airport cheering and breaking into spontaneous applause at returning veterans.
In the war of "My Entitlement Check" vs. veterans, the veterans lost.
Medicare is not exempt. ObamaCare moved $500,000,000,000.00 from Medicare to Medicaid, simply by lowering what they pay to providers.
Try and find a Dr. who will take Medicare patients, even if you have a PPO as secondary, and offer to pay cash.
You have no choice as to whether you have Medicare. Of course you could always choose to be independently wealthy, bear in mind that would mean more than a few million.
The commercial I recall of the Vet returning home to an empty
baggage claim—and empty streets—until a veteran reached out and welcomed home a veteran reflects what many of my generation felt. We flew into a civilian airport in NC. (The
Military airfeild was closed for some reason) It was snowing and the pilot (again for some reason) did not park at the
terminal but on the hardpan. We deplaned and ran through the snow past a group of anti-War types who called us every name you could imagine and some did spit-and some did toss garbage at us. Inside we changed from our summer dress kaki or greens into civilian cloths as quickly as possible. It took many years for veterans to erect that long black wall in D.C. While attempting to be a good college boy — I walked out on a class in 3rd yr. English when the instructor
who admitted he had protested during the War. said to the class “the Vietnam War didn’t mean Nuthin’ —because we lost.” of about ten “Nam Vets eight of us walked out. My feeling was we Never lost on the battlefields -but we did lose on the college campus and in Washington. I ‘ve had to fight the Govt. more after my discharge than I ever dreamed
I would while I served. But that’s just the way it is.
Welcome Home —And I do thank you for your service.