Posted on 03/15/2014 9:16:12 AM PDT by Salvavida
I just received a letter from the Veterans Administration. Included is VA form 10-10EZ, "Application for Health Benefits".
The form touts that once a veteran is signed up, the will have "met the new requirement to have health care coverage that meets the minimum standard".
If I already have TRICARE for life, why would i need it? Looking at the date they want, I can only come to one conclusion: TRICARE WILL BE DISMANTLED.
There is no other reason. If you look at the intake form, it also asks for intrusive data (real property, bank accounts, property, etc.) And the form holds you to 18 USC 1001 for concealing a material fact or making a false statement.
What does my benefit have to do with my bank account and possessions? If I gave up my youth, and destroyed my body for 20 years of service, why does the VA need to know these things? What is the database? Is this meant to manipulate the numbers for Obamacare prior to the mid-term elections?
Thanks for the link. It looks like it is meant for people that never applied for VA care. When I retired in 96, I attended a briefing by a VA rep, who recommended everybody apply for VA care. Don’t know if they still do that.
Medicare send us a letter a few months ago saying Medicare covered our requirements and we didn't have to sign up for anything else.
We have Tri-for-Life too and between Medicare and Tri it covers us completely (just a small fee for 'scripts by mail).
Got it. I should have been more clear. I’m more interested in the body of the letter sent by the VA and what might have triggered it to include the form.
On the way to dismantling the coverage for Vets through the VA system, I heard a man say if you like your health coverage, you can keep it.
I guess it means that you still have your current coverage, but it will not meat Obama’s requirements. So you will have to pay the yearly fine.
I just got one too. I have health insurance thru IBM (retired wife’s policy). It was cancelled last year but IBM got us into another policy (not O-care). I’m an AF vet, but never signed up for the VA. This letter says, “Our records show you haven’t signed up for VA, and when you do you meet the O-care standards.” I got the same impression they want to pad the numbers to make it look better. Eff’em
smokingfrog posted:
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https://www.1010ez.med.va.gov/health/programs/index.asp
MY ANTIVIRUS SAID THIS WAS AN UNTRUSTFUL SITE AND NOT TO PROCEED!!!
I know, but it appears to be a legitimate link from the va.gov website.
I got a letter from the V.A. stating that there will be no changes in my healthcare provisions, since I have been identified as a ‘%age’ disability, and I do not have to do a thing.
If you are below ‘30 percent’, there were papers, once a year, that I had to do, even when I worked at the V.A., that were a real PITA, and yes, they asked a BUNCH of questions.
Does Tri-Care cover maternity?
Yes.
The purpose of the Veterans Administration is not to help Veterans. The purpose of the Veterans Administration is to provide jobs for Democrat voters.
Unreal....Please spread this everywhere.
I have a ZERO percent disability rating for cardiac arrythmias which occurred during my army service back in the 60’s. The VA claims that since I worked a “desk job” as a programmer my disability wasn’t sufficient enough to compensate me.
My condition was downgraded back in 1986 to Congestive Heart Failure and even though I didn’t apply for VA disability until 1992, they still gave me the reduced rating.
I have been declared totally disabled by an Administrative Law Judge for Social Security back in 2000 but I am still unable to receive any compensation from the VA.
I also have been examined by the VA for knee and back injuries which I received in the Army and I am currently receiving Morphine and OXYCODONE for due to the disabling pain.
My VA Comp and Pension exam states that ALL my injuries including ear nerve damage are “MORE LIKELY THAN NOT” service connected but still no compensation from the VA.
I also have to fill out the yearly form for the means test and on the bottom this year it asked if I have applied for Obamacare. I left that part blank and submitted the form back in December.
It is now march and I still haven’t heard back from then as to whether or not I am covered this year. I have already cancelled appointments because I am not sure if I will be billed for them.
The Dems are out to destroy the military any means they can and diverting the funds to their illegal immigrant voters just to stay in power. The Vets mean nothing to the dems as witnessed by their efforts to keep the VETS absentee ballots from being counted in the last two elections.
Dear dglang,
Like you, I have a ‘similar-to-but-cannot-be-because the year was later than the one written-down Agent Orange exposure, so no money for that. I served three years straight in and about SouthEastAsia.
Like you, I had to sue for my 52 quarters of Social Security benefits, (the smart lawyer used all my V.A. records in winning my case), after my forms were denied three times.
In the meantime, before I applied for V.A. benefits, I had the discovery of, removal of, and treatment of, colorectal cancer. Since 2000, I have had one laposcopic, and three relocation surgeries, all picked up by the V.A.
As to our being ‘unclean’ by the Democrats, I agree. When Illinois State Senator Barack HUSSEIN Obama called the troops ‘baby killers’, on the floor of the Illinois Senate Chamber, and then became HMIC, I knew something was wrong.
BTW, Clinton did the same thing with the GI votes.
You'd think the govt would know whether or not TRICARE for life qualifies.
I looked at one of the footnotes for this paper. SECDEF Gates declared that TRICARE meets ACA requirements. So it begs the question: What is the utility of sending this form out?
Also, there is nothing in the letter suggesting that any veteran is REQUIRED to fill out this form and send it to the VA. Something is fishy.
Wild. I received a letter from the VA stating that the Instant Robbery Service and the SS tell them I make too much $$$$. They want to reevaluate my percentage and want me to pay after 37 years.
Coincidence?
Wild. I received a letter from the VA stating that the Instant Robbery Service and the SS tell them I make too much $$$$. They want to reevaluate my percentage and want me to pay after 37 years.
Coincidence?
I am the Post Adjutant at my local VFW and I always remind vets to bring such questions to their post Service Officer.
My question to Obama and his regime is where are the cuts to the programs for the millions of leaches in our Country who have not done anything more than take up space and take in oxygen?
U.S. Veterans
Are U.S. Veterans Selfish?
Mark Thompson @MarkThompson_DC
Jan. 26, 2014
MOAA
As the Pentagon budget vise tightens, those who served complain over cuts
It’s an impudent question, but one that naturally surfaces given the outrage rolling in from assorted veterans’ groups as Congress and the Pentagon seek ways to trim government spending that sometimes affect those who have volunteered to fight America’s wars.
It’s also the predictable downside to enlisting only 1% of the nation’s citizens to fight, and possibly die, to strive to achieve national goals.
When presidents and congresses insist on waging war with no shared sacrifice, it should come as scant surprise that those who have done all the sacrificing squawk when their expected benefits end up on the chopping block.
http://time.com/2077/are-u-s-veterans-selfish/
George W. Bush: We Owe the 1 Percent — The Military
on Breitbart TV 19 Feb 2014
In a speech at the George W. Bush Institute on Wednesday, President Bush gave remarks about the military and how that 1 percent protects the other 99 percent of Americans.
“Since 9/11, more than 2.5 million Americans have worn the uniform,” Bush said. “They have faced down our enemies, they’ve liberated millions, and in so doing showed the true compassion of a great Nation. They are the 1 percent of America who kept the 99 percent safe. And we owe them, and their families, a deep debt of gratitude.”
VIDEO: http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/02/20/George-W-Bush-We-Owe-the-1-Percent-the-Military
My letter from the VA stated that, since I am enrolled in VA Healthcare as a disabled veteran, that I do not need to enroll in Obamacare. Sounds like they have qa different plan for the retired vets versus the broken ones...
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