{"id":22452,"date":"2011-03-01T14:54:19","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T18:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22452"},"modified":"2011-03-01T15:49:59","modified_gmt":"2011-03-01T19:49:59","slug":"tearing-down-the-trust-between-veterans-and-their-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22452","title":{"rendered":"Tearing down the trust between veterans and their government"},"content":{"rendered":"

Operator Dan sent us this link from American Progress<\/a>, the leftist thought-free tank, entitled “Restoring Tricare” and of course, it targets military retirees and veterans upon whose backs, these pitiful girlie men want to balance the national debt.<\/p>\n

Congress and the American public are rightly wary of asking veterans, servicemen and women, and their families to shoulder increasing health care costs when so many service members are or have recently been engaged in operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

It is important to note, however, that our recommendations would in no way affect active-duty service members, who would continue to receive health care at no cost.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, that’s their shield; our recommendations don’t affect active duty military. Um, if I’m not mistaken, those people who are currently serve will eventually become retired and expect their government to fulfill the promise of healthcare. It’s not like we were born into this world as military retirees, we earned it.<\/p>\n

…this paper recommends restoring the cost-sharing balance between military retirees and the American taxpayer, a balance which was established in 1995 and has since been allowed to deteriorate for no good reason.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ya know what happened in 1995? For all of you young bucks who weren’t around then, military retirees were kicked off of DVA and Tricare at the age of 65 and tossed onto the heap of Medicare. So all of that lifetime healthcare you earned was just gone. That’s the “balance” these peckerwoods are describing.<\/p>\n

In order to address this growing imbalance, we recommend the following steps:<\/p>\n

* Gradually phase in increased fees for military retirees, including a tiered fee structure for working-age retirees<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More class warfare…since you did your time, retired, tried to catch up with your peers in the job market and became successful, we’re going to charge you for your healthcare and break payments down to be commensurate with your wages.<\/p>\n

Increase cost sharing to encourage responsible use of Tricare for Life benefits<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You’ve been using your benefits irresponsibly. You spent twenty years never going on sick call unless you needed it (mostly because you couldn’t stand spending the morning surrounded by whiny privates) but now suddenly, you’re irresponsible. SO we’re going to make it so expensive, you still won’t use it.<\/p>\n

Limit double coverage for high-income retirees and peg Tricare premiums to Medicare Part B costs<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There it is. Medicare again. What easier way exists to “peg Tricare premiums to Medicare ” than just move military retires to Medicare at 65 years of age? <\/p>\n

Yeah, yeah, I read your comments about we should be willing to “give up” what we earned in the greater sense of service to our country, blah, blah, blah. I used to agree with you, until I noticed in the 90s that only ones “sacrificing” were veterans and service members. the rest of the goofballs were standing in line with hands out, in some sort stupor created by a sense of entitlement.<\/p>\n

Naw, fuck you. This isn’t a sense of entitlement, this is promises made and promises broken. When I see fat shits like Hallis Mailen<\/a> laying around on his fat ass demanding more from government, I lose my sense of patriotic duty to give up the shit I earned.<\/p>\n

This time, if they want to brag about how they “balanced the budget” let them do it without my happy participation. Go after the waste and abuse<\/a>, but leave me alone.<\/p>\n

Did I mention that my pension has dropped about $125 in the last two years? That didn’t happen under Clinton or Bush. How the fuck does the value of my service drop?<\/p>\n

Thanks to Old Trooper for that last link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Operator Dan sent us this link from American Progress, the leftist thought-free tank, entitled “Restoring Tricare” … Tearing down the trust between veterans and their government<\/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-22452","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\/22452","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=22452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}