Congressional debt deal exempts Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security -- for now
You are correct about the lies and smoke and mirrors of the Obama administration. Kathleen Sebelius was caught red handed during Congressional testimony of "double counting" Medicare.
The devil is in the details, and yes, payments could be reduced - but this is nothing like what is happening to veterans. These are real cuts now. TRICARE is going up....now. Possibly by a quadruple amount. Remember, before TRICARE, veterans and their immediate families were promised free health care for life. Now they pay, and it is going to soon be a lot more. Isn't that great?
Medicare was no where near touched or impacted in this debt deal as will be military and veterans.
It is a simple political equation: Democrats demanded entitlements not be touched, and come this November "Super Congress" commission, veterans and the military are going to be slaughtered (my prediction). The article I posted attests to this.
Furthermore, even leaving out benefits to the military and veterans, the "deal" calls for the first 50% of ALL cuts to come DIRECTLY from the DoD - and then after that they can go after whatever crumbs anyone even agrees to. Former Ambassador John Bolton said in a recent interview this was a "disaster" for the Defense Dept, and alluded that instead of weapons and contractors, the DoD may try to take even more away in terms of retirement, health care, and salaries.
Medicare is a "sacred" program to Democrats.
The could give a rat's a$$ about veterans.
I don't disagree, I was promised free health care for life when I enlisted in 1954.
The point I was making is medicare is being ravaged to expand medicaid, just like Social Security has been ravaged by SSI. Service to country is no longer a plus, whether military or as a taxpayer.
When we have people on death row getting heart transplants, and sex change on the horizon, we have officially lost our collective sanity.