{"id":20070,"date":"2010-08-10T09:40:50","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T13:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20070"},"modified":"2010-08-10T09:42:35","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T13:42:35","slug":"theyre-still-coming-for-your-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20070","title":{"rendered":"They’re still coming for your benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day I wrote about the Defense Business Board<\/a> which recommended slashing military retiree benefits. Ranger Off-Spring (ROS) sent us a link on Military (dot) Com<\/a> about yet another DoD panel coming for our benefits;<\/p>\n

“Unless retirees contribute more for their TRICARE insurance, medical costs will not be brought under control and the national defense they served, and for which they fought and sacrificed, will be harmed,” says the final report of the Quadrennial Defense Review Independent Panel.<\/p>\n

The panel is co-chaired by former Defense Secretary William J. Perry from the Clinton administration and Stephen J. Hadley who was national security advisor through President George W. Bush’s second term.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“I’ve heard a four-star military leader comment that DoD is turning into a benefits company that will occasionally kill a terrorist,” [Arnold Punaro, a defense industry executive and retired Marine Corps Reserve major general] said in a phone interview Tuesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Anyone else sense a real screwing coming on? It’s not like it hasn’t happened before…until the late 80s, retirees had dental benefits and co pays for CHAMPUS were a lot lower. In the 90s, Clinton put military retirees on Medicare at 65 and took them off of the military system and he started TRICARE which requires a premium for our “free healthcare”.<\/p>\n

I don’t hear anyone in the Health and Human Services Department calling for more Medicaid user participation in paying for their health care…or talks of slashing other SSI benefits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other day I wrote about the Defense Business Board which recommended slashing military retiree benefits. … They’re still coming for your benefits<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberals-suck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}