Military Retirees to lose TRICARE ,.. Obama Lies again, Where does Lincoln Stand?

Dear Senator Blanche Lincoln (D) Arkansas.
This Obamacare business will spell the end of ALLS Careers who vote it in or even agree with its contents.
When you Mess with the Health benefits of the Military and the Retired Military you will have gone too far to ever be recognized as even an American.
Blanche will you please put your comments on this news column to defend yourself? Otherwise you will be unemployed very soon. We the people are still in Command of your future as a servant.

Blanche you once counted me as one of your Military advisers. You know how to contact me. I don't hide from folks.
I am a retired Navy Chief and a once proud Army Medic. I promise you now. YOU Nor Obama will take the Benefits I earned as a Veteran to Both Vietnam and Desert Storm and for the 22 years I swore to defend our Constitution.

YOU JUST WON"t

Gather together with Tea Party's on November 2 2009 as we from all parts of the State of Arkansas, all race, all people who want accountability of our government back to the people. Let us stand together in one large voice and announce that in one year we are coming back with our vote for a difference we can believe in.

On November 2, 2009 at 12:00pm show up from every corner of our State and fill the halls of our Capital and send a clear message we are coming back in one year for our government.

Contact all your friends and we need a count of this major statement to the elected we are not going away and we are in one voice.

We the people are the boss not the elected.

A viral e-mail campaign is unsettling military retirees over 65. Sourcing a Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report, these e-mails claim that TRICARE for Life is at risk. These distress warnings are overstated.

The report, on Budget Options, Volume 1: Health Care lists 115 options for reducing federal spending on health care, altering federal healthcare programs, and making substantive changes to the nation’s health insurance system. But these are not formal recommendations. The suggestion for TRICARE for Life is only Option 96 on the list. None are formal recommendations.

A total of six proposals of the 115 might affect military health care. Other options include increasing health care cost sharing for family members of military personnel on active duty (Option 95); increasing health care cost sharing for military retirees under age 65 (Option 97); and copayments and changes to enrollment for medical care provided by the Veterans Affairs Hospitals for enrollees without a service-connected disability (Options 28, 29 and 98)

The CBO report is a periodic report made every two years. The last such report was published in February of 2007 when CBO provided 250 budget cutting options to Congress on altering federal spending and revenues, of which health care and Medicare changes were a part. What was unusual with this year’s health care report was that it was published in a separate volume.

ROA would like to thank those members who brought this report to our attention. The Reserve Officers Association is concerned with legislation that might affect the military health readiness, and deny earned health benefits and will continue to track this issue. ROA leadership has been in discussions with other military and veteran associations and the consensus is that currently there is no serious risk. At this point there are no fires needing to be put out.

sent in by the Reserve Officers Association.