MORE AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE! (EXCEPT FOR THE MILITARY)
Obama (Doesn’t) Care adds 400% increase to military member’s tri-care fees
While President Barack Obama is celebrating the survival of his so-called “Affordable Care Act,” he is busy making health care less affordable for the nation’s military families. As the Washington Free Beacon reports, the President is threatening to veto a defense appropriations bill unless military families have to pay higher fees for TRICARE, the military’s health insurance program. The Obama administration ostensibly wants to help the Pentagon save money; the real motive is to make TRICARE less attractive than costlier Obamacare exchanges.
The Free Beacon notes that the bill that passed the House of Representatives, with bipartisan support, refused to incorporate the President’s request for higher TRICARE fees–and the administration has expressed displeasure.
Once again, we see that Obama’s supposed devotion to military families – a cause purportedly dear to the First Lady’s heart – does not extend beyond using military families as political props, whether as salve for Obama’s anti-war sentiments or as campaign-commercial fodder to make Obama look like a better leader than he actually is.
Despite President Obama’s penchant for referring to “his” solders, his affected affection evidently only goes so far. Obama’s real goal is to protect Obamacare, and to advance his ambition of transforming the nation – and if the health care of America’s military families must suffer, so be it. It’s not as if he’s relying on military votes.
Written by Joel B. Pollak and published on Breitbart June 29, 2012.
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…we’ve got the Marines running ops all over Conus, along with the guard units, army, whatever.. hows about taking all their toys and having a blockade on DC to make a point with O and the other traitorous dogs up there…ain’t that far from Missouri, or Tampa..or Chicago, or Michigan either…bit of a stretch from Colorado, but then again, the gov has moved a lot to the Denver area so blockade’em both eh?…
Not talking about a military coup, just a military protest…how’d that be for a change?
I just sent this to both my local papers.
As we all know, recently the Supreme Court handed Barack Obama and win with their ruling on the Affordable Care Act. However, sources now state that the Commander-in-Chief is displeased because Congress refused to include a substantial increase in the Tricare premiums military members pay for their health insurance.
Being that this is a public forum, and that people may be offended, I will refrain from voicing what I would like to say. Let it be said that may I suggest to Mr. Obama that if he wants to spread democracy, fight terrorism, knock over two-bit dictators, that he pick up a rifle and go over and do it himself.
If Mr. Obama wants our young men and women to go all over the world at his beckon then he best ensure that they, and their families, receive the best and most affordable care available. Otherwise he can go fight his own wars.
Like we Fucking care about their displeasure! This piece of garbage and his Wookie Mate need to go, soonest!