“I have long supported the goal of universal health care.”It's looking very much as if the health care reform will come down to whether President Obama has the will to fulfill the promises of Candidate Obama, or whether he chooses, instead, to adopt as his mascot -- the very embodiment of his administration -- the sniveling unprincipled liar, Joe Lieberman.
-- Joe Lieberman, 2006 (on the campaign trail)
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"I will not be able to support a cloture motion before final passage. Therefore I will try to stop the passage of the bill."
-- Joe Lieberman, Oct. 27, 2009
Regardless of what you may hear, as Jane says, it all comes down to whether Obama is willing to twist Lieberman's arm.
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PLEASE PASS THIS TO ALL MILITARY RETIREES
This is true. It is on pages 77, 172, 218, and 434. You have to dig to see the
charges. We (retirees) would lose the Medicare for life benefit and would have
to pay. We would lose TRICARE as a total care package. We would not be allowed
to keep TRICARE so when Obama stands and says if you like what you have you can
keep it, he lies.
This is a "Heads Up" on a battle we are facing now and down the road
with the new Administration. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has already
drafted proposed legislation that would basically reduce our TRICARE for Life
benefits to a system whereby we pay deductibles and co-pays up to $6,301 the
first year for you and your spouse, with future years being indexed to increase
with inflation. What can we do? The article below, obtained from an Air
Force Association and written by BG Bob Clements, best describes what we can
do. Please read it and check the links for CBO language and do what Bob
says-Send this email to every Military Retiree you know and write and email
your Congressman often. For those of you that might have voted for
"Change", you should do it more than often!
TRICARE FOR LIFE'S FUTURE . . TRICARE For Life was instituted to correct
the broken promise that military retirees would receive free healthcare
coverage for life and it covers the Medicare co-pay. Now a heavy assault has
begun on Veterans'/Retirees' benefits to pay for other programs our President
promised during the campaign. And it is a high priority of his administration.
The one item of most interest to Retired Military is in Article 189. If
approved by Congress the first assault wave would hit in 11 and would hit hard.
It would initiate cost sharing to require retirees to pay the first $525 of
medical cost and 50% of the next $4,725 for a first year cost of $2,888 per
person. It would be indexed to increase with inflation. A reason given
for this action (for PR effect) is "overuse" by Retirees.
For those of you who are covered by TFL you will want to pay attention (Below)
to what BG Bob Clements has surfaced about the future of TFL. In any case, on
page 189 of the Congressional Budget Office report, see the note below on how
to get to that spot, there is a strong recommendation to eventually eliminate
the program as it is too expensive. Just another move to slight those of us who
dedicated much of our adult lives to the defense of our country.
Strongly recommend that you contact your elected officials and register your
strong opposition to the elimination of the TFL program. Heads-up from BG Bob
Clements, USAF Ret (P38 Bob)
The following has been added to the Congressional Budget Office Web Site
www.cbo.gov/
a. Budget, Options, Volume 1: Health Care
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