Posted on 10/10/2012 10:18:01 AM PDT by 11th_VA
A provision in the national health care law that lets young adults stay on their parents' insurance plan is popular with many families -- but not ones in the military.
Families covered by Tricare, the health program for active and retired members of the military, must pay as much as $200 a month to let an adult child stay on their plan until age 26.
Most families in private plans now pay no fee to extend such coverage. Military families are starting to complain about the disparity, saying they can't afford those premiums and have let their children go uninsured (10/9).
0bamaRomneyCare: Causing people to drop their Health Insurance!
Why doesn’t Tricare change?
Hmmmm.....if you offered that plan to the general public, they’d consider it a fantastic bargain and snap it up. Most healthy individuals can’t get anything for under $500 a month.
Actually I think private plans might be much more. At my workplace, the dependent “child” who is not a full-time student and under 26 is charged at FULL ADULT PRICE, not subsidized by the employer. I think that runs at least $400-$500/month here, probably normal.
This may be one of those situations where it is just ASSUMED that the private sector has some great deal.
Hmmmm.....if you offered that plan to the general public, they’d consider it a fantastic bargain and snap it up. Most healthy individuals can’t get anything for under $500 a month.
Military families don’t vote Rat so why should they get any “goodies”?
And it's for "kids" up to age 26.
No sympathy from me.
WTF is “0bamaRomneyCare?”
You’ve been brainwashed to believe they are the same?
That’s probably a democrat. I tried to explain federalism to it but it didn’t understand that Romney is against the federal government being involved in healthcare.He’s just mad Romney destroyed his Obama Marxist in the debate. Made a fool of that POS Obama lol
Rank
<2 Years Experience 4 Years 6 Years Experience
Private (E1) $17,892** — —
Private (E2) $20,056 $20,056 $20,056
Private (E3) $21,089 $23,774 $23,774
Corporal (E4) $23,360 $27,198 $28,357
Sergeant (E5) $25,489 $29,851 $31,946
Staff Sgt(E6) $27,814 $33,268 $34,636
*Based on 2012 pay tables.
**Pay for Private (E1) will be slightly lower for the first four months of service.
The dirty little secret is... it is costing employers a fortune and they dare not say a word IMHO because they fear "the One's" Administration coming down on them like some here theorize when they went after Toyota to help out GM....
If I am correct watch the mask come of this mess sometime after 11/7 or maybe in the spring....
In regard to ObamaCare, Romney firmly believes that each state should have the right to craft its own health care program. In his book, No Apology, Romney states:
“My own preference is to let each state fashion its own program to meet the distinct needs of its citizens. States could follow the Massachusetts model if they choose, or they could develop plans of their own. These plans, tested in the state ‘laboratories of democracy,’ could be evaluated, compared, improved upon, and adopted by others.”
In keeping with the belief that states should be able to craft their own programs, Romney has said that on his first day as president, he would issue a waiver to all 50 states allowing them to opt out of ObamaCare. This waiver would allow states to postpone the implementation of ObamaCare while Romney works with congress to formally repeal the bill.
Nor should there be.
There is more to this.
Military kids have free health care until 21, unless they are enrolled in college full time, then it is 23. (but they have to maintain full time status) Get married and you lose the benefit.
I have counseled my daughter to stay in school and persue a masters. Times are tough and it sounds a lot better to say you are a poor grad student than an unemployed college grad. That helps her keep coverage. Once she turns 23 and is working she can pay the $200. Not my responsibility.
They’re complaining because this is NOT how it’s done elsewhere. If everyone had to pay that, then we’d be fine.
When ObamaCare was first passed, the extended coverage option applied to everyone EXCEPT military. Why is every college-age kid in the nation able to stay on their parents’ insurance except military children? ObamaCare specifically denied this only to military dependents.
That pissed us off.
Now, they’re letting us keep our kids on, but we have to pay what others don’t.
The question we ask is, why does this administration keep singling US out??
We’ll take the hit and pay our due. But we won’t accept being the exception to every friggin’ rule.
It is a concept called Federalism...
Pretty much takes an Act of Congress to change anything in TRICARE.
Any government at any level that arrogates unto itself the power to dictate to you how you must spend your money on penalty of prison is your slave-master.
If RomneyCare in Massachusetts required everyone to spend 100% of their income on broccoli or go to prison, how is that functionally different than requiring people to buy health care?
If a government can direct your life’s energy (earnings) at their whim, you have no freedom. You have serfdom at best, and slavery at worst.
I care not a whit whether the man with the gun to my head is from the White House or the State House.
Federalism is not an argument for turning the ownership of the government by the people into the ownership of the people by the government.
so in order for our kids to stay on the Tricare rolls, they need to pay 2400 per year? Not bad.
Are any congress people looking into this?
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