Bush Proposal/Tricare or VA not Both
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President Bush:
We petition you to withdraw your proposal that military retirees must choose between enrollment in Tricare or Veterans Administration (VA) healthcare.
Many military retirees have a service connected disability from injuries or illnesses contacted during their 20 plus years of honorable service to this great nation. In many cases this requires specialized treatment that is not available from local doctors. At the VA this is an earned free entitlement.
If a retiree is forced to choose Tricare for the medical care they would be responsible for the Tricare co-payment on their service connected disability. This would force a financial hardship upon many. This would be another erosion of our benefits.
Military retirees have earned and were promised healthcare for serving 20 plus years of honorable service. We need the option to be enrolled in both healthcare systems in order to maintain our health and receive the quality of care we earned by our sacrifices.
This proposal will affect over 1.8 million retirees. The nations longest serving veterans. All military retirees are veterans but not all veterans are military retirees.
We urge you to withdraw this proposal.
We petition you to withdraw your proposal that military retirees must choose between enrollment in Tricare or Veterans Administration (VA) healthcare.
Many military retirees have a service connected disability from injuries or illnesses contacted during their 20 plus years of honorable service to this great nation. In many cases this requires specialized treatment that is not available from local doctors. At the VA this is an earned free entitlement.
If a retiree is forced to choose Tricare for the medical care they would be responsible for the Tricare co-payment on their service connected disability. This would force a financial hardship upon many. This would be another erosion of our benefits.
Military retirees have earned and were promised healthcare for serving 20 plus years of honorable service. We need the option to be enrolled in both healthcare systems in order to maintain our health and receive the quality of care we earned by our sacrifices.
This proposal will affect over 1.8 million retirees. The nations longest serving veterans. All military retirees are veterans but not all veterans are military retirees.
We urge you to withdraw this proposal.
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18 December 2015
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Arnold Gthompsons
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ANOTHER WAY ?? ..Save Tax Payers.... Save Veterans Do away with the VA Hospitals Let them use their VA ID Cards to go to Hospitals in their own towns close to FAMILY and friends.Why herd them off to those less then healthy infested disrespectful VA staff
7 December 2015
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Stephen Bf
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I have earned those rights, promised to me when I joined the Corps. As a recruiter, this same issue was in our hand-outs that we would show our prospects. I spent thirty years in the Marine Corps. Our politicans have been slowly taking things away from us
19 November 2015
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Gerry D
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I'm a US Marine Veteran and once again disappointed by this administration. We have sacrificed our lives, families, limbs etc. for this country and you are willing to take away one of the most important benifits that allows us to live on. I guess there's
24 October 2015
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Melvin Pr
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I sure hope I didn't vote for the wrong man, I thought you were for the veterans of this country especialy the retires. Please help us be able to keep our health the best we can. We need both to have great young men to get in the service, they will not if
6 October 2015
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Donald Al
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Why are the congressmen/women more important than I am? They get their medical paid for for life and they, for the most part never faced the enemy pointing a gun at them. They got to go home at night and had three squares a day.
5 September 2015
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Rick Garbettusafcmsgt
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It has been said, "People will forget how fast you did a job --but they remember how well you did it." It is time our Commander In Chief shows by his actions that he remembers "how well veterans have done their job," by providing them the compensation the
15 August 2015
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