{"id":60789,"date":"2015-07-09T11:50:17","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T15:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60789"},"modified":"2015-07-09T12:03:32","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T16:03:32","slug":"lindsey-graham-says-that-you-dont-pay-enough-for-your-healthcare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60789","title":{"rendered":"Lindsey Graham says that you don&#8217;t pay enough for your healthcare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not surprising really that this Graham fellow, a veteran and presidential candidate,  would sneak around behind us a stick it in us. This is what he said to the Atlantic Council yesterday, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2015\/07\/09\/gop-candidate-military-retirees-must-pay-more-for-health-care.html?ESRC=eb.nl\">Military.com<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The retired Tricare community is going to have to increase over time the amount they pay to make it sustainable,&#8221; he said. &#8220;About 5 percent of the money to pay Tricare bills comes from the patient population. In the private sector, it&#8217;s about 20 [percent]. So over time, we&#8217;re going to have to ask Tricare retirees to contribute more to make Tricare more sustainable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The cost of the military&#8217;s health care system almost tripled to $52 billion in 2012 from $19 billion in 2001. Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates in 2009 famously warned Congress that &#8220;health care is eating the department alive.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My only question to Senator Graham is; where the f*** were you when the Pentagon raided our $770 million Tricare surplus in 2013 with the full approval of the Congress? Yes, we overpaid for our healthcare and instead of investing it in future healthcare costs, Congress let the Defense Department spend it on whatever they wanted (read that &#8211; flag officer comforts). <\/p>\n<p>So, Miss Graham, GFY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not surprising really that this Graham fellow, a veteran and presidential candidate, would sneak around &hellip; <a title=\"Lindsey Graham says that you don&#8217;t pay enough for your healthcare\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60789\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lindsey Graham says that you don&#8217;t pay enough for your healthcare<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-congress-sucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60789","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=60789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}