{"id":27351,"date":"2011-11-06T10:07:20","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T14:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27351"},"modified":"2011-11-06T10:07:20","modified_gmt":"2011-11-06T14:07:20","slug":"mccain-levin-support-higher-costs-for-your-free-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27351","title":{"rendered":"McCain &#038; Levin support higher costs for your free healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ROS sends a link from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pnj.com\/article\/20111023\/NEWS12\/110230314\/Tom-Philpott-Key-senators-back-increase-TRICARE-fees-next-generation?odyssey=nav%7Chead\">PNJ.com<\/a> which reports that either way veterans voted in 2008, we were screwed. Apparently, the guy who lost the election, a veteran, I&#8217;ve heard, has sold veterans down the river like a real maverick.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sens. Carl Levin, D-Mich., chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and John McCain, R-Ariz., its ranking Republican, endorse President Obama&#8217;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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t that great? When the Senate decides to be nopartisan, it&#8217;s to screw the shit out of veterans? But that&#8217;s not the extent of it;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The first-ever TFL fee would climb to $295 in 2013 and, under the president&#8217;s plan, would be raised annually thereafter to keep pace with health care inflation. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s not the end of it, either;<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>Levin and McCain also back, with caveats, Obama&#8217;s other cost-saving initiative for TRICARE \u2014 charging sharply higher co-payments on drug prescriptions filled through the TRICARE network of retail pharmacies.<\/p>\n<p>So just remember that when our elected officials praise ou service on friday. they mean it so much that they don&#8217;t mind fucking the living shit out of us while they protect their own retirement packages, and those of their bloated staffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROS sends a link from PNJ.com which reports that either way veterans voted in 2008, we &hellip; <a title=\"McCain &#038; Levin support higher costs for your free healthcare\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27351\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">McCain &#038; Levin support higher costs for your free healthcare<\/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":[89,86,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress-sucks","category-veteran-health-care","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27351","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=27351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}