Obama's Broken Promise to Wounded Warriors
By Robert M. Goldberg on 3.27.12 @ 6:07AM
The American Spectator
Our veterans are now being condemned to the worst of Obamacare coverage.
For most Americans who oppose Obamacare the constitutionality of the law's mandate to buy insurance is less important than the power government has under the law rob them of medical freedom. Ironically, those that lose freedom under Obamacare first could be the wounded warriors who fought for our freedom.
In 2010 President Obama promised Obamacare wouldn't diminish health benefits for service families or retirees. He told the 9.6 million veterans and active duty personnel, who use TRICARE -- the Defense Department's health plan -- or go to Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals and clinics, that they would be better off:
"If you're in the VA or TRICARE, this will not force you to change systems...veterans would be eligible, potentially, for this health care exchange where they could select from a different set of plans and get some help in paying for their premiums depending on income levels."
Yet, last week the administration unveiled a plan to remake TRICARE that breaks that promise. Most observers have focused on a proposal to raise premiums for military retirees younger than 65 from $460 a year to as much as $2,048 by 2017 (if they're receiving more than $45,178 in retirement pay).
Rest of story at: http://spectator.org/archives/2012/03/27/obamas-broken-promise-to-wound
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