{"id":32478,"date":"2012-10-20T08:20:20","date_gmt":"2012-10-20T12:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=32478"},"modified":"2012-10-20T08:21:11","modified_gmt":"2012-10-20T12:21:11","slug":"balancing-the-budget-on-the-backs-of-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=32478","title":{"rendered":"Balancing the budget on the backs of veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"

The president told the American Legion Convention in 2011 that he wouldn’t balance the federal budget on the backs of veterans, yet, here’s the Department of Defense shutting down Tricare Prime<\/a> in the western states which gets replaced with Tricare Standard.<\/p>\n

As of April 1, as many as 30,000 Prime beneficiaries \u2014 retirees, Active Guard and Reserve troops, and family members \u2014 in Iowa; Minnesota; Oregon; Reno, Nev.; and Springfield, Mo., will have to switch to Tricare Standard, a traditional fee-for-service health plan, according to a source with knowledge of the reorganization.
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\nUnder the changes that will start April 1, as many as 170,000 Prime enrollees across all three regions eventually may have to drive longer distances to see a Prime provider or switch to Tricare Standard, which has no enrollment fees but carries greater out-of-pocket costs:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The point I’ve made in the past is that Obamacare was supposed to reduce healthcare costs for Americans, yet, the single opportunity that the government has to control healthcare costs, they jack up costs to retired American veterans. That’s probably because we earned the benefit of healthcare instead of standing with our hands out.<\/p>\n

And I’m not convinced that a Romney\/Ryan presidency would reverse the Obama Administration’s actions against veterans, because I can’t get an answer from the campaign.<\/p>\n

Thanks to all of you who sent us the link over the last few days,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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