Posted on 10/10/2012 10:18:01 AM PDT by 11th_VA
A provision in the national health care law that lets young adults stay on their parents' insurance plan is popular with many families -- but not ones in the military.
Families covered by Tricare, the health program for active and retired members of the military, must pay as much as $200 a month to let an adult child stay on their plan until age 26.
Most families in private plans now pay no fee to extend such coverage. Military families are starting to complain about the disparity, saying they can't afford those premiums and have let their children go uninsured (10/9).
Any government at any level that arrogates unto itself the power to dictate to you how you must spend your money on penalty of prison is your slave-master.
If RomneyCare in Massachusetts required everyone to spend 100% of their income on broccoli or go to prison, how is that functionally different than requiring people to buy health care?
If a government can direct your life’s energy (earnings) at their whim, you have no freedom. You have serfdom at best, and slavery at worst.
I care not a whit whether the man with the gun to my head is from the White House or the State House.
Federalism is not an argument for turning the ownership of the government by the people into the ownership of the people by the government.
“Why doesn’t Tricare change?”
Because Nancy, Obama and the Apollo group didn’t want it to change as part of the “Affordable Health Care act”?
You expect them to make it easy for military members?
Confirmed: Romneycare = Obamacare
By Michelle Malkin • January 26, 2012 10:32 AM
http://michellemalkin.com/2012/01/26/confirmed-romneycare-obamacare/
“White House visitor logs obtained by NBC News revealed that three of Romney’s healthcare advisers had up to a dozen meetings with senior administration officials, including one in the Oval Office presided over by President Barack Obama.
“They really wanted to know how we can take that same approach we used in Massachusetts and turn that into a national model,” MIT economist and Romney healthcare adviser Jon Gruber told NBC.
...
“Industrial-strength nose plugs can’t cover the stench.”
Doubt it.
Wouldn’t imagine any E1, E2’s or E3’s have children that are 26 yrs old. IMO a 26 yr old is not a kid and should be on their own. They can always join the military
Wrong. It depends on how the employer’s insurance is set up.
Where I work, an employee plus spouse pay one premium level. They add a kid (birth to age 26), then they’re going to change to a higher premium level and pay more.
Until 2 years ago, an employee plus spouse paid the same premium as a family with 2 adults and 5 kids. That wasn’t exactly fair, either.
“Any government at any level that arrogates unto itself the power to dictate to you how you must spend your money on penalty of prison is your slave-master.”
Nice evasion of the point.
I’ve started calling it obamaDOESN’Tcare.
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