{"id":57226,"date":"2014-12-20T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57226"},"modified":"2014-12-20T09:29:48","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T14:29:48","slug":"pentagon-move-retirees-to-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57226","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon: move retirees to Obamacare"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yeah, who didn’t see this coming; budget experts at the Pentagon say that the Department of Defense could save butt loads of money if they forced military retirees into Obamacare. We know that, but it’s not keeping faith with veterans who fulfilled their obligations depending on the government to keep their end up. From the Army Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n

[T]he budget analysts said the Defense Department could realize tremendous savings if it tapped into the resources offered by the general, civilian health care system and coverage available through federal or state exchanges.<\/p>\n

“It’s a little radical, but should we be thinking about how some of the military system might transition some of their people to the Affordable Care Act exchanges, especially in sparsely populated areas of the country?” said Alice Rivlin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office and the Office of Management and Budget who now serves as a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Some of you told me that I was crazy when I warned about this in 2008 before the election. There was a reason that they pumped so much money into the VA, so they could drive us away from Tricare. The Obama Administration claimed that they wanted to make healthcare cheaper for the entire country when they introduced Obamacare – well, everyone except veterans.<\/p>\n

John Mayer, a military health and energy analyst with Booz Allen Hamilton, added the Pentagon should be under no obligation to continue providing “free health” care to those who have retired from military service and have access to health care either through their employers or the Affordable Care Act.<\/p>\n

“Having a program where they can go in and get free health care, and do it as often as they want seems to be a burden that the American public shouldn’t have to bear,” Mayer said, speaking of the military retiree population who uses Tricare.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I absolutely challenge him to say the same about Medicaid or Medicare. Some of us made life decisions based on promises that the government had no intention to keep. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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