Holidays are Over.  It is Time To Get Back to Work on 2007 NDAA and Medicare

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Holidays are Over.  It is Time To Get Back to Work on 2007 NDAA and Medicare

2007 NDAA = Let's Get the Ball Rolling Take Action!  http://capwiz.com/usdr/utr/1/DXKXFIRBBX/KYOCFIRBCI/575076721

Also Congress Failed to Act on the Medicare Cuts in 2006
 
The recently adjourned 1st Session of the 109th Congress left the following numbers of retired military career veterans with unresolved issues: 375,000 retired military career veterans with less than 50% disability denied Concurrent Retirement Disability Pay.

275,000 retired military career veterans who have aged at least 70 years and who have made at least 30 years of SBP premium payments denied "paid in full" status. With the current effective date of 1 October 2008, those who enrolled in 1972 will have made 36 years of payments (20% overpayment).

188,000 Chapter 61 medical disability retired military career veterans with less than 20 years denied Concurrent Retirement Disability Pay.55,000 widows of retired military career veterans denied relief from the VA Dependency Indemnification offset to military Survivors Benefits annuity purchased by the deceased military member from earned retirement pay.

As you will recall this legislation was included the Senate version of the 2006 NDAA but was deleted by joint committee action. How very sad for these brave ladies.20,000 retired military career veterans rated IU (Individually Unemployable) denied 100% benefit under Concurrent Retirement Disability Pay. Section 665, 2006 NDAA, grants no relief until 2009.17,000 POW who died in captivity denied the Purple Heart.

This last item is a crying shame because unlike the other issues, the Congress can not claim "budgetary constraints."38 million Americans on Medicare have their access to physicians jeopardized because of your failure to correct the 4.7% cut in physician’s reimbursements mandated by current Medicare Law.

All of this proposed legislation has bills now held hostage in committee. Please follow through and urge the active support of our elected and appointed officials and the media for this legislation in the 2007 National Defense Authorization Act.



Any man or woman who may be asked in this century what they did to make
life worthwhile in their lifetime....can respond with a great deal of pride and
satisfaction, "I served a career in the United States Navy."