{"id":39388,"date":"2014-01-20T16:09:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T21:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39388"},"modified":"2014-01-20T16:10:26","modified_gmt":"2014-01-20T21:10:26","slug":"cbo-removing-working-age-retirees-from-tricare-would-save-billons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39388","title":{"rendered":"CBO; remove working age retirees from Tricare to save billons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Obviously, the Congressional Budget Office is looking for ways to screw the living shit out of veterans, especially retirees. We talked earlier last week about all of the ways that they could make healthcare more expensive for veteran retirees. I joked that doing away with Tricare altogether would save them the most money without gouging into the most constituents. They must have been reading, because they are now thinking about removing “working age” veterans from Tricare, according to a link sent by Travis from the Military Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n

According to the CBO, proposals to increase Tricare enrollment fees and copayments for working-age retirees could save $24.1 billion from 2015 to 2023, while introducing minimum out-of-pocket charges for beneficiaries using Tricare for Life would save roughly $18.4 billion.<\/p>\n

But banning working age retirees from the Pentagon\u2019s HMO-style Prime plan could save $89.6 billion \u2014 an amount difficult to ignore, budget experts said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, what they want to do is force retirees into the current mess that they’ve created for the rest of America in regards to health care – that monstrosity dubbed Obamacare. Never mind that any of us stayed in the service to get cheaper healthcare, that we were promised healthcare as a condition of our continued service, that we’ve already fulfilled our part of that bargain and can’t get our youth back. They could save even more money if they just outright decided to stop giving us our pensions, too. Are they really that petty? Are they really that jealous of our retirement benefits that they just want to strip away every fiscal reason that we served? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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