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Obama sending to Congress bill to triple TRICARE premiums
Fox News Channel (live, no link) | 2/29/12

Posted on 02/29/2012 10:09:18 AM PST by pabianice

Just on Fox. Obama sending Congress a bill to triple over the next several years the premiums service people, their families, and retirees will have to pay for TRICARE medical coverage. Dem congressman on Fox claims that the military have too good a deal on medical coverage and "it's only fair to increase their permiums." Repub disagrees. Notes that Obama's buddies in civilian military jobs (i.e. unions) will see no increase.


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To: pabianice
Look at what else is going on with the military..Our men and women that serve this country having to do with out food while the Senate and Congress and the trash in the white house lives like Kings..Obama and his free loading family taking one vacation after another using the money that can go to feed military children..Now the fool in the white house is going to make them pay more in medical insurance..

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/More-Fort-Hood-Families-Seeking-Help-140495053.html

21 posted on 02/29/2012 10:30:46 AM PST by PLD
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To: pabianice

AKA, let’s kill off the military first. That way, we gets us our own homies in there.


22 posted on 02/29/2012 10:33:05 AM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: pabianice

Those who are our declared enemies and captured receive unlimited healthcare while the men getting shot while defending this nation receive little.


23 posted on 02/29/2012 10:33:35 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (When religions have to beg the gov't for a waiver, we are already under socialism.)
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To: Hodar

Contrast it with what most free-loaders are paying...

And I include Congress and the usurper in that group.


24 posted on 02/29/2012 10:35:09 AM PST by butterdezillion
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To: pabianice

I have the answer, increase the union goons premiums 3x and keep the military and retirees at current the premiums.


25 posted on 02/29/2012 10:35:34 AM PST by rawhide
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To: pabianice
"unions will see no increase"

26 posted on 02/29/2012 10:36:52 AM PST by Baynative (Please check this out - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFIcZkEzc8I)
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To: pabianice

Yet 0bama fully backs the unions who cry and moan about picking up a portion of their medical costs.


27 posted on 02/29/2012 10:37:46 AM PST by SueRae (Tale of 2 Towers - First, Isengaard (GOP-e), then 11.06.2012, the Tower of Sauron)
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To: butterdezillion
Contrast it with what most free-loaders are paying...

Good point ... One way to deal with this is remove Medical Care as a basic human right. Stem the tide of illegals using the ER as their primary means of seeing the Doctor. When you have a large number of using the hospital free of charge; those of us with insurance, or who actually work for a living; get nailed paying for the free-loaders.

28 posted on 02/29/2012 10:38:00 AM PST by Hodar ( Who needs laws; when this FEELS so right?)
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To: combat_boots

Exactly.

Am I remembering right, that a while back the military was pushing “counseling” where wounded soldiers were supposed to analyze whether it would be easier on their families if they just died rather than going through rehab?


29 posted on 02/29/2012 10:39:02 AM PST by butterdezillion
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To: Hodar

Obamacare just made it so that Muslims have a free pass to be the free-loaders. IIRC it was the day after Obamacare passed that an imam declared that insurance is “gambling” and thus against Islam. So Muslims don’t have to be insured.

I’ve wondered if that means that Muslims can’t drive a car - or if that means that the “uninsured” insurance I have to buy is a dhimmi tax that I pay in subservience to the Muslims who don’t have to be insured.

SO MANY signs of creeping sharia.


30 posted on 02/29/2012 10:42:10 AM PST by butterdezillion
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To: Hodar

$36/Month is a fraction of what I pay. Of course, in my job I don’t have to worry about our country’s enemies shooting at me.


31 posted on 02/29/2012 10:43:12 AM PST by Made In The USA (This post may be recorded for quality purposes.)
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>>Makes a difference when you put actual numbers to what is paid for Tri-Care, doesn’t it? Contrast that to what most working-class Americans are paying for their Health Care Insurance.

I see. Please describe the times in your civilian job you were shot at, came under artillery fire, and were wounded, and how many times you were sent away from your family for a 1-3 year unaccompanied tour.

32 posted on 02/29/2012 10:43:37 AM PST by pabianice (")
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To: Hodar

Most working class people didn’t move every couple years, dragging their families with them. Most working class people didn’t spend weeks, months or even years seperated from their loved ones. Most working class people have not had to endure hardships like that of the military.
One of the carrots dangled in front of GI’s to get them to commit to 20+ years was the free health care. It was the deal they made with the rest of America to protect the freedoms we have.
Where were you when the Shiite hit the fan? Probaby sitting on your fat assets. Sad Sack of Siberian Sheep Shiite.


33 posted on 02/29/2012 10:44:17 AM PST by Captain PJ
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To: pabianice

Boehner and McConnell will simultaneously America and what is remaining of the GOP.

That’s what we get for looking the other way and continue to vote for progressives in the GOP!!!

Their plan is playing out just like they expected.


34 posted on 02/29/2012 10:44:28 AM PST by surfer (To err is human, to really foul things up takes a Democrat, don't expect the GOP to have the answer!)
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To: butterdezillion

I remember that. Can’t find a link now. Interesting.


35 posted on 02/29/2012 10:45:03 AM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: Hodar


Let me see: get uprooted every 3-4 years, get sent to be shot at in some hell-hole to protect "working class Americans", your pay is laughable compared to a private sector job in the same field (Physicians, nurses, Administrator, engineers etc...), you have PT requirements, training, on notice 24/7, lose a lot of your freedom, and if you want to put in 20 years you are promised some benefits in the end. And get this, if you permit yourself to be in the service of this Country and make these sacrifices you get "free" medical care.

I take it you want a military comprised of conscripts?
36 posted on 02/29/2012 10:48:49 AM PST by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians)
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To: cld51860

It’s spine and guts time for the RNC, Conservatives, the Tea Party, and We The People or else, IMO.


37 posted on 02/29/2012 10:50:35 AM PST by ExTexasRedhead
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To: pabianice
"Obama sending to Congress bill to triple TRICARE premiums"

No problem. Send it back with black letters stamped

FUBO!

38 posted on 02/29/2012 10:53:12 AM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: combat_boots

I made a quilt for a wounded soldier, along with matching friendship bracelets - one I have on my left arm at all times to remind me to pray for him and one for him to have so he can know that I’m praying for him. One of the things I pray for the most is the courage and hope to keep pressing on in his recovery, as well as a sense that he is loved, respected, and appreciated, and that he has a purpose for being here.

Just like everything I’m trying to accomplish in my life, seems like I’m paying my government to undo it. Everything in my being is saying to that soldier, “Live and prosper!” And my government is tapping their foot and saying, “Can’t you just die already?”

To help me know how better to pray, I watched “Black Hawk Down” for the first time a while back. I watched it again just 2 nights ago while I put newspapers together. I am struck again and again with the knowledge that our arrogant usurper is unworthy to even lick clean the latrines of those guys.


39 posted on 02/29/2012 10:54:09 AM PST by butterdezillion
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To: butterdezillion

The incident portrayed was not the only one at that time.

Also watch “The Kingdom,” if you haven’t. There’s a perspective, right there. A couple of characters are lame, though.

From the movie script:

“DOJ pol type: I’m gonna bury you.

The answer from the Director/guy in charge (DC setting. Fancy office): You know, Westmoreland made all of us officers write our own obituaries during Tet. When we thought the Cong were gonna end it all right there. And once we clued in to the fact that life is finite, the thought of losing it didn’t scare us anymore.

The end comes no matter what. The only thing that matters is how do you want to go out? On your feet or on your knees?

I bring that lesson to this job. I act knowing that someday this job will end, no matter what.

You should do the same.”

http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/k/the-kingdom-script-transcript.html


40 posted on 02/29/2012 11:02:56 AM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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