Posted on 10/15/2011 9:18:43 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
The top lawmakers on the Senate’s defense panel on Friday recommended that a special committee searching for ways to slash the deficit consider some of President Barack Obama’s proposed changes to health and retirement benefits for the military.
In separate letters to the bipartisan panel, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., chairman of the Armed Services Committee, and Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., signaled they were open to cost-saving steps in military benefits, recommendations that have already attracted fierce opposition from powerful groups of retired officers and veterans resistant to change.
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Somebody please admit both of these SOBS into a nursing home.
Wonder if it is possible to recall this pos. Sooner rather than later.
Hell, no. I will vote against any politician who does not support full payment of the agreement made to the US military regarding the repayment of what was always described as deferred pay and benefits.
Republican, Dem, Libertarian, etc. - if you go against the veterans or the retirees I will not support you.
Look for the maggots down at the AARP to start running TV ads making it sound like it is ONLY the Republicans who are doing this.
We have way too much incompetent and careless government.
They are sooooo out of touch with reality. The Beltway is the logic-free zone!
Why don’t these pos senators lead by example by slashing Senators and Reps pay, benefits, and pensions first before they go after anything else.
“The Pentagon’s health care costs have skyrocketed from $19 billion in 2001 to $53 billion...”
I wonder how much of that goes to helping our service members who’ve had limbs blown off or burns over 75% of their body.
I guess a dead soldier is cheaper than a wounded one.
JERKS.
THEY sent our guys to war. THEY put them in harms way.
Now THEY don’t want to pay for it.
Yeah, McCain is really all about supporting our troops...
WHAT A JERK.
I agree with you 100%.
It appears to me that we have to cut spending on those who have actually given something for their country so we have money to support the losers on all forms of public assistance who have done NOTHING to deserve it, but pop out babies and give up on taking care of themselves.
(insert favorite raspberry sound clip here)
And with the predicted flaming arrows headed my way for doing so, ITS AN ANOLOGY! Deal with it.
I respect his service at the time but I prefer to evaluate a man for his overall qualifications as I would to someone like Benedict Arnold who himself was a decorated war hero before embarking on his desire for "seven pieces of silver".
From the beginning, and even before, of his 2008 candidacy, this hero has been the gift that keeps giving to the Obama administration.
I’m open to changes to the congressional medical plans. Let them have the same plan we have!
I respect his service at the time but I prefer to evaluate a man for his overall qualifications as I would to someone like Benedict Arnold who himself was a decorated war hero before embarking on his desire for “seven pieces of silver”.
I would so much like to use that for a tag line.
Great. After they’re done, even FEWER physicians will take Tricare than do already. I already have to drive 30 miles to see my primary care provider and he’s told me he loses $$ on Tricare patients. Only does it out of a sense of patriotism — G-d bless him.
TriCare is fairly well-run, better than Medicare for return-on-investment. The VA hospital/healthcare network, not so much.
What kind of person who call himself an American would even suggest cutting medical for the military while they are handing out free medical to illegals and able bodied moochers by the millions.
I know of quite a few able bodied young men and women who have connived their way on to disability and free medical because of overeating, drugs, alcohol, “bad back”, etc.
If I understand the rules correctly, any physician that accepts Medicare must, by law, accept Tricare.
Got this from the Army Times - “That rule says that a hospital that accepts Medicare patients is required by law to accept Tricare patients also.
That rule does not apply to individual professional providers, such as physicians.”
http://militarytimes.com/blogs/tricarehelp/tag/doctor/
Top senators open to changes in military health. This translates to, McCain got his, now all others can go screw off.
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