The Obama administration’s proposed defense budget calls for military families and retirees to pay sharply more for their healthcare, while leaving unionized civilian defense workers’ benefits untouched. The proposal is causing a major rift within the Pentagon, according to U.S. officials. Several congressional aides suggested the move is designed to increase the enrollment in Obamacare’s state-run insurance exchanges.
The disparity in treatment between civilian and uniformed personnel is causing a backlash within the military that could undermine recruitment and retention.
The proposed increases in health care payments by service members, which must be approved by Congress, are part of the Pentagon’s $487 billion cut in spending. It seeks to save $1.8 billion from the Tricare medical system in the fiscal 2013 budget, and $12.9 billion by 2017.
Many in Congress are opposing the proposed changes, which would require the passage of new legislation before being put in place.
“We shouldn’t ask our military to pay our bills when we aren’t willing to impose a similar hardship on the rest of the population,” Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and a Republican from California, said in a statement to the Washington Free Beacon. “We can’t keep asking those who have given so much to give that much more.”
Read More at freebeacon.com By Bill Gertz.
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When is CONGRESS going to take a hit before continuing to attack our military personnel?
I hope soon these leaches got some nerve.They get to spend their whole careers on the taxpayers dole and they don't give back a dime,they just take
Can anyone imagine our satan like president wanting to make budget cuts on the military and btheir families.These are the same people who would protect his half black ass and his big ass wife.We knew they hated the military but never to this extent.President Sambo should cut his families expensive vacations or campaign trips.Obooma uses Air Force 1 like Trump or Limbaugh use their jets.Maybe congress should give back some of their salaries and expense accounts.
to ask such a thing of our military is just plain revolting. this Sambo, as Edwardkoziel puts it, is perfect, except the Real Sambo was all black. And had more brains. And didn’t have a fat arsed wife who thinks she is all that and a bag of chips……..oh, I forgot, she thinks chips are unhealthy. Well, as far as I am concerned, SHE is the one who is UNHEALTHY FOR OUR NATION, she and that flappy earred, purple lipped lying *^%$#_@+=whose brain malfuntions at every turn of those ears. neither one of them are worth a hair off the heads of our men and women who serve, I SAID SERVE, you dimwitted, fat lipped peice of trash, SERVE THIS COUNTRY! To protect just your kind. And you can take that any way you please. And so can anyone else who reads this comment.
Any field grade officer in our military who hasn’t already told Obama where to stick this act of TREASON should immediately resign.