MRGRG-MS - Oppose Misguided Military Health Fee Increases

Since 02-12-06

From: MRGRG-MS@yahoogroups.com [mailto:MRGRG-MS@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of Floyd Sears
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 10:07 PM
To: !CAG/MRGRG e-mail network
Subject: [MRGRG-MS] Oppose Misguided Military Health Fee Increases

Go to http://capwiz.com/moaa/issues/alert/?alertid=8368951, follow the instructions, and send the MOAA composed message to your 2 Senators and your Representative.

After you fill in the form then check the box in front of the "Remember Me!" and the next time you use the MOAA "Contact Congress" you will find the Web Form filled in. It doesn't get any easier than that.

Then go to http://mrgrg-ms.org/educate-the-congress.html and update the MRGRG Tracking System.

I sent the following MOAA composed message with last paragraph added.

I urge you, as my legislator, to oppose the Pentagon's penny-wise and pound-foolish plan to shift far more health care costs onto the backs of those who have served 20 to 30 years in uniform and those who are currently serving.

The President's budget for FY07 will propose forcing thousands of military retirees to pay $1,000 a year more for their military health coverage and making all military beneficiaries pay 67% higher retail pharmacy fees.

Defense leaders say military coverage is now "much richer" than typical civilian plans.  The Joint Chiefs of Staff say these increases will help pay the cost of new military weapons systems.

Pentagon leaders are forgetting that military  members and their families have paid far higher premiums for their health coverage than any civilian - through decades of service and sacrifice that few Americans are willing to endure.

A government that has been able to afford hundreds of billions of dollars in pork spending and tax cuts can certainly afford to pay for both military weapons and health care for those who fought this country's battles through all the hot and cold wars of the last 70 years.

STOP the greatest swindle of all time... a broken contract with America's military retirees. For details look at and listen to a series of narrated web pages on the Internet starting at http://mrgrg-ms.org/swindle00.html, or download a PowerPoint presentation from http://mrgrg-ms.org/swindle.ppt. Then take those actions necessary to stop the DoD proposed increases to Tricare fees and copays.
 

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Floyd Sears, MSGT, USAF, retired

Retired Military Advocate

6733 Riviera Drive

Biloxi, MS  39532-9348

E-mail - fsears@bellsouth.net 

Home page – http://mrgrg-ms.org/

Working the Military Retiree Medical Care broken promise issue

IF IT WASN'T FOR THE MILITARY--THERE WOULD BE NO AMERICA