McCain & Levin support higher costs for your free healthcare
ROS sends a link from PNJ.com which reports that either way veterans voted in 2008, we were screwed. Apparently, the guy who lost the election, a veteran, I’ve heard, has sold veterans down the river like a real maverick.
Sens. Carl Levin, D-Mich., chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and John McCain, R-Ariz., its ranking Republican, endorse President Obama’s call to establish next year a $200 enrollment fee on TRICARE for Life, the prized supplement to Medicare for 2.1 million elderly military retirees, their spouses and survivors.
Isn’t that great? When the Senate decides to be nopartisan, it’s to screw the shit out of veterans? But that’s not the extent of it;
The first-ever TFL fee would climb to $295 in 2013 and, under the president’s plan, would be raised annually thereafter to keep pace with health care inflation.
That’s not the end of it, either;
Levin and McCain also back, with caveats, Obama’s other cost-saving initiative for TRICARE — charging sharply higher co-payments on drug prescriptions filled through the TRICARE network of retail pharmacies.
So just remember that when our elected officials praise ou service on friday. they mean it so much that they don’t mind fucking the living shit out of us while they protect their own retirement packages, and those of their bloated staffs.
Category: Congress sucks, Veteran Health Care, Veterans Issues
I especially loved the drug plan with the $45 co-pay and suggested government deal with pharma.
What a douche.
What a surprise. We called it a few years ago.
People still ask me why I didn’t put in until retirement. I look at shit like this and I don’t need to wonder if I made the right choice or not.
OFF TOPIC: Sunday Morning Non-Prayer for Atheists
My Brothers and Sisters in Nothing,
There was always nothing. Then, in an instant or a billion years, from nothing and no one came something. Something, from nothing, became more of something out from nothing. The things from nothing became even more numerous and varied, differentiated by physical and biological characteristics and attributes. It all just happened–out of nothing. Amen.
Amen.
#4 2-17AirCav:
That sound suspiciously close to the Democrats’ financial plan for… everything! Amen
As for McCain and Levin: neither will ever have to use TRICARE. No veteran, or supporter of veterans on Capitol Hill has, or will ever use TRICARE. They get the Congressional plan, for life, at most at a modest (very modest) expense to themselves.
This is what happens when you over-insulate the Congress from reality. Strip them of their bennies, force them to go out onto the market for these things – and suddenly, clues will be caught.
All according to plan.
Shut down MTFs, limit care to active duty, build a shitty network for retirees and reduce payments; shift costs to retirees.
There’s no way TFL will last. Watch for a voucher/payment plan that’ll force you (us) to compete for an ever shrinking provider base that cannot afford to add us to their practice.
30+ years in Navy Medicine (retiring in April) and I cannot say I’m leaving it better than I found it.
Not surprising. Just one of the reasons I didn’t vote for McCain.
54 cents a day over a one year period to cover processing, enrollment, whatever they need…in order to get into a heath care system that will cover you the rest of your life. Doesn’t seem too bad.
So they’re asking the people now to pay into a system so that they and future generations can benefit. You don’t pay unless you want to use it, so you can’t complain about it when you have 10 years in and might not make 20 and qualify, they’re only going after those entering the program. With everything else we need to worry about, this seems like a waste of anger..
Good ole VTWoody. You’re missing the whole point as usual – they promised that healthcare was FREE for life. That’s why I stayed until i retired…the pension is shit. I use the MTF because that’s the only way I get it free, so the increases won’t effect me…yet. But what about the guys who don’t live near an MTF, can’t work and depend on every penny? Yeah, if i was a big shot NFL cheerleader, i wouldn’t worry about it either. But there are other people in the system besdes me.
Deprive earned benefits to those who had a contractual agreement which included them (Don’t even thrown moral obligation into the argument because it isn’t needed. The legal contract does fine on it’s own.) to pay unearned benefits to parasitic citizens impoverished by and dependent upon those who enslave them.
Makes sense only to those who do stupid things like play in traffic and sleep on a sidewalk just because they want to.
Given the subject and how close it is to Veterans Day, I thought this would be appropriate: I went into a public-‘ouse to get a pint o’ beer, The publican ‘e up an’ sez, “We serve no red-coats here.” The girls be’ind the bar they laughed an’ giggled fit to die, I outs into the street again an’ to myself sez I: O it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Tommy, go away”; But it’s “Thank you, Mister Atkins”, when the band begins to play, The band begins to play, my boys, the band begins to play, O it’s “Thank you, Mister Atkins”, when the band begins to play. I went into a theatre as sober as could be, They gave a drunk civilian room, but ‘adn’t none for me; They sent me to the gallery or round the music-‘alls, But when it comes to fightin’, Lord! they’ll shove me in the stalls! For it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Tommy, wait outside”; But it’s “Special train for Atkins” when the trooper’s on the tide, The troopship’s on the tide, my boys, the troopship’s on the tide, O it’s “Special train for Atkins” when the trooper’s on the tide. Yes, makin’ mock o’ uniforms that guard you while you sleep Is cheaper than them uniforms, an’ they’re starvation cheap; An’ hustlin’ drunken soldiers when they’re goin’ large a bit Is five times better business than paradin’ in full kit. Then it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Tommy, ‘ow’s yer soul?” But it’s “Thin red line of ‘eroes” when the drums begin to roll, The drums begin to roll, my boys, the drums begin to roll, O it’s “Thin red line of ‘eroes” when the drums begin to roll. We aren’t no thin red ‘eroes, nor we aren’t no blackguards too, But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you; An’ if sometimes our conduck isn’t all your fancy paints, Why, single men in barricks don’t grow into plaster saints; While it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that, an’ “Tommy, fall be’ind”, But it’s “Please to walk in front, sir”,… Read more »
Yes, this is the same fine Dem Lite McPain who co-sponsored the anti-First Amendment McCain-Feinberg bill.
It is time for Congresmen and Senators to set the example. If they want to cut everyone’s hard earned benefits then they should cut their benefits as well. They should cut their pay and retirement by the same percent. They should also have to pay more for their health insurance. The subsidies that they get when they retire to keep offices open should be eliminated. Any monies that they did not spend should be returned to the treasury. Will they reduce their entitlements of course not. They earned it and it is theirs. Well I earned mine to.
Why should McCain care? His retirement is set, and in any event, the Missus makes enough in the beer biz to make any money he gets in retirement roughly equivalent to pocket change.
Oh, should we only be so lucky.