My first reaction to this was:
I wouldn’t mind paying $200 a year to help my nation...
My second reaction was:
That’s what they’ve been doing to the military for years. They just keep whittling and chipping at our benefits until there isn’t anything left.
When my husband joined, there were no fees for veterans’ healthcare. We were promised health insurance for the both of us for life.
Then they said that we had to pay something. Fine. Then a little more... and more... and now more.
But now they’re cutting commissary benefits. The fees for the SBP have gone up so that it’s cost prohibitive for many retired couples.
A hundred here... four hundred there... fifty over there...
Now they’re talking about the medical stuff not kicking in until retirement age. Well that puts us on Medicaid! Why bother?!
They won’t stop!
200 fee in 2012 and going UP to 295.00 in 2013. Prescriptions UP and COLAS froze...bad news for the older retirees especially
This is the same reaction I have. My husband and I can afford it for now. My dad is retired military. I worry about him and my mom. My youngest daughter is a Navy spouse, I worry about what is in store for them.