{"id":38501,"date":"2013-11-19T09:47:47","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T14:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38501"},"modified":"2013-11-19T09:48:13","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T14:48:13","slug":"still-coming-for-your-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38501","title":{"rendered":"Still coming for your healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, we saw how the Obama Administration planned to hike your out-of-pocket Tricare costs so that you&#8217;d be forced into the Obamacare program, or whatever they&#8217;re calling it today. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2013\/11\/19\/obama-urges-congress-to-support-tricare-fees.html?comp=7000023317828&#038;rank=1\">Military.com<\/a>, in a link sent to us by Chief Tango, reports how they plan on doing just that;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Pentagon proposed an annual enrollment fee based on a percentage of retired pay for Medicare-eligible retirees in the Tricare For Life Program. Working age retirees in the Tricare Standard and Tricare Extra programs also would face new annual enrollment fees phased in over five years.<\/p>\n<p>The White House also proposed an increase to the current enrollment fee for working age retirees in the Tricare Prime program phased in over the next four years. <\/p>\n<p>As for co-pays, the White House has proposed increasing Tricare Prime co-pays for retirees and their beneficiaries by $4 for medical visits not related to mental health.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Congress was successful earlier this year in resisting hikes to your Tricare costs, but the fate of the plans of this administration rests on the election in November. Can you imagine the outcry that would arise over hikes to out-of-pocket costs to Medicaid or Medicare? While this administration makes noise about lowering Americans&#8217; healthcare costs, they raising veterans&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time for the VSOs to do a march-in to the Oval Office again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, we saw how the Obama Administration planned to hike your out-of-pocket Tricare &hellip; <a title=\"Still coming for your healthcare\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38501\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Still coming for your 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":[46,86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-veteran-health-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38501","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=38501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}