MRGRG-MS - Please send a
message for me
Since 01-31-06
From: Floyd Sears
Sent: Jan 31, 2006 5:01 AM
To: senatorlott@lott.senate.gov
Subject: [MRGRG-MS] Please send a message for me
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Dear Senator Lott:
The majority of your Senate colleagues no longer have e-mail addresses
instead they use the Web Form. By using the Web Form they are able to reject
messages from anyone other than their own constituents based on the ZIP code
used. I need to get a very important message, the message that follows my ID
block, to all Senators. Since I'm blocked from sending it directly to all
Senators then I'm asking you to send the message for me. Thank you.
-- Floyd Sears, MSGT, USAF, retired Retired Military Advocate 6733 Riviera Drive Biloxi, MS 39532 E-mail - fsears@bellsouth.net Home page – http://mrgrg-ms.org Working the Military Retiree Medical Care broken promise issue and the Brown Bag Project IF IT WASN'T FOR THE MILITARY--THERE WOULD BE NO AMERICA -- The message. The Joint Chiefs are joining the civilian Department of Defense officials seeking to more than triple annual enrollment fees for officers in Tricare Prime and double the fees for enlisted retirees by 2008. DoD wants to jack up fees for under 65 officer retirees from $240 a year for individual coverage to $750, and from $450 annually for family coverage to $1,500. The Department of Defense wants to raise fees for enlisted retirees under age 65 to $450 for individuals and $900 for families. The deductible for Tricare Standard also would be raised and an annual enrollment fee would be imposed. Medicare eligible military retirees also would take a hit, with co payments for retail generic drugs jumping from $3 to $5 and for brand name drugs from $9 to $15 retail and $10 by mail order. DoD claims it needs the money from the military retirees to balance the defense budget. The Department of Defense and the Congress plays this money game with America's Military Retirees caught in the middle when ever it's convenient to do so and it fits their political needs. The military retirees can do very little to defend themselves while DoD and the Congress plays this adult money game. We can only hope that you folks in the Congress will let your common sense and good judgment prevail and take those actions that are necessary to stop this increase in fees to our earned and paid for medical care. Please do this. Get aquatinted with the military retiree medical care broken promise issue by looking at the series of narrated web pages on the Internet starting at http://mrgrg-ms.org/swindle00.html and a court's decision on the Internet at http://mrgrg-ms.org/d99-1402.html#conclusion. Then take those actions that are necessary to stop the greatest swindle of all time... a broken contract with America's military retirees. A good first step will be to cosponsor and support HR 602 and S 407.