{"id":22290,"date":"2011-02-16T08:44:12","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T12:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22290"},"modified":"2011-02-16T08:44:12","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T12:44:12","slug":"webb-to-block-tricare-fee-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22290","title":{"rendered":"Webb to block Tricare fee increases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m beginning to be ambiguous about Jim Webb, the Virginia Senator who snubbed President Bush in the White House four years ago. At least he&#8217;s decided to be on the side of veterans in recent years. The Pentagon has proposed to raise Tricare fees for the medical treatment which we were promised would be free while we were serving. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/2011\/02\/military-tricare-fee-increase-opposition-021511w\/\">Senator Webb has vowed to make the Pentagon keep their promise<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAs someone who grew up in the military and served in the military, I start from the presumption that lifetime health care for career military personnel is part of a moral contract between our government and those who have stepped forward to serve,\u201d said Webb, who heads the personnel subcommittee for the Senate Armed Services Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Webb\u2019s comments came one day after Defense Secretary Robert Gates proposed raising annual enrollment fees for the military\u2019s Tricare health coverage by about 13 percent for working-age military retirees.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, the Pentagon wants to balance their budget on the backs of those of us who don&#8217;t work for them any more. If GM or Ford tried to do the same thing with their legacy costs, the Obama Labor Department  and Congressional committees would tear them apart. If this was cutting waste and abuse, I&#8217;d be all for it, but this punishing veterans for believing the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m beginning to be ambiguous about Jim Webb, the Virginia Senator who snubbed President Bush in &hellip; <a title=\"Webb to block Tricare fee increases\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22290\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Webb to block Tricare fee increases<\/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":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veteran-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22290","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=22290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}