MRGRG-MS - The military retiree medical care broken promise issue and fee increases
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From: Floyd Sears
Sent: Jan 30, 2006 7:36 AM
To: !CAG/MRGRG e-mail network
Cc: "Tim (G.T.) Forehand" , "Jean D. Beard" , Harry Riley , Jim Whittington , "Bob Reinlie (CAG)"
Subject: [MRGRG-MS] The military retiree medical care broken promise issue and fee increases
 

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Folks:

I just sent my messages, as per the Tim Forehand schedule posted at http://mrgrg-ms.org/fax-it.html, and made an entry in the Record Book at http://www.efreeguestbooks.com/mg/multi.pl?27625:9:0.

I got an e-mail from another military retiree a few days ago telling me that the sending of messages to the Congress was a tedious process and he asked me if I thought it was all worth the effort. I responded with this... "Yes it is tedious, but it will more tedious if DoD and the Congress prices the fees we must pay to get the medical care we have earned and paid for beyond our ability to pay". As I've said many many times... nobody is going to do this job for us.

Much of what you need to do to get the job done can be found at http://mrgrg-ms.org/fax-it.html and http://mrgrg-ms.org/fax-it-senate.html. A few people have collected the tools and the data that you need to get the job done (using a FAX machine and if you do not have a FAX machine using the Congressional Web Forms) and have made it available. Please use it. Fight back... don't just lay down and quit.

Floyd (working with Tim Forehand, Jean Beard, and others) Sears
 

RECORD BOOK ENTRY:

Sent messages to and updated the Tracking System for: (Brownback) (Roberts) (Bunning) (McConnell) (Vitter_David) (Landrieu).

Sent this 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 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.

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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
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