This from the Party and Administration that support the Dream Act that equates Attending College as the same as Military Service for consideration of benefits.
The same Party and Administration that suggested Veterans should use their own Health Insurance for treating injuries from Combat.
Everybody is going to have to feel the pain, sadly, even those that are the least deserving to feel that pain, will have to feel it, so we can fix the problem.
Sadly, I think we are going to see people screaming, the programs deserving the most to have the cuts to the massive fraud and abuse in their incredibly bloated budgets, shouldn't be cut and we should be cutting benefits for the people that have done the most to deserve the benefits they get.
I think itsbob point was that Tricare has numerous options and co-pays, the figure of $460 per year cost to an individual is an unfair summation. The only way that figure applies is if that person is NOT costing the government one red cent in health care costs, just maintaining their tri-care for insurance against catastrophic illness or injury, or when they will eventually need to use it later in life. i.e. pay into the system for when they will taking more out of it later, when their costs will go up as well at that point. If the individual is costing the government in health care costs, their out pocket expenses are a lot higher than $460 a year, and likely they have paid into the program a lot more then they took out for many years before that.
This is like Hillary Clinton visiting a Military Base for the first time in her life, when she was the First Lady, and marveled about the base Gym and Rec Facilities and suggesting, if the government provides this for the Military, why doesn't it provide for all Americans?
She never was told that the Government doesn't provide the Gym and Rec Facilities, they all come from MWR that gets it money from the profits paid by the military members themselves through the exchange/px/commissary system.
Yes, you can argue that the government being the seed for the profit does have a hand in providing those benefits for military members; BUT, the Military has set up more efficient system to provide these benefits for the Military Members deserving it and pay into it themselves, that is NOT the same as a bloated and inefficient government provided benefits for people that have done absolutely nothing to pay into it or to even deserve it.