DoD SCREWS THE MILITARY!

[Gimpy]

DoD and Rumsfeld screws the Military again!

Got your attention, did it? Check this out and see if that's all that far off...


Congress will worsen a near crisis of runaway military health care costs if it enacts a Senate-backed provision to open the new Tricare Reserve Select program to all drilling Reserve and National Guard members, the Defense Department's top health official has warned.


In testimony before a House subcommittee, Dr. William Winkenwerder said military health costs have doubled in just the last four years to more than $36 billion, largely because of enhancements in benefits for retirees and their families. But Winkenwerder also blamed a decadelong freeze on Tricare enrollment fees and co-payments, which he suggested DOD will try to raise after consulting military leaders and Congress.


Remind me again, Dr Winkenwerder how much money we have paid CheneyBurton and other companies to mis-manage contracts in Iraq?

How much money was airlifted in pallets of $100 dollar bills on C-17's into Baghdad and disappeared? Now you want to start cutting costs on the backs of retirees and others who served with the promise of care?

I love this:


"If costs aren't brought under control", he warned, "the sustainability of the military's world class health benefit is threatened".

" The current $36 billion budget will climb to $50 billion in four or five years," Winkenwerder said. "Even the Joint Chiefs," he added, "are now worried that health spending is affecting programs of higher priority for the nation's defense."


"climb to $50 Billion in four to five years"? Yeah right, as opposed to the close to $217 billion and counting spent to date on "Freedoms" for the shia muslims to choose Persian Fundamentalism for the entire Gulf Region. Hey, great work guys!


Then of course, there are the conserva-retards in the House of Representatives who couldn't balance the budget if their lives depended on it:


"Congress should do nothing more on reserve health benefits," Winkenwerder said, "until TRS has had time to run." He criticized as costly and unneeded a Senate-approved plan to open TRS to all drilling reservists. House Republican leaders removed similar language from the House 2006 defense authorization bill, saying the $3.8 billion cost over five years, was not offset with cuts elsewhere, thus violating House budget rules.


Rep. John McHugh, R-N.Y., chairman of the personnel subcommittee, had supported that decision and invited Winkenwerder to comment on the nearly identical provision alive in the Senate bill.


"We don't support that provision," said Winkenwerder. (Well no shit Sherlock!)


So, drilling reservists covered or potentially covered by the plan, your healthcare under the TRS plan has been deemed less important by the republican House of Representatives than oh, say, the Bridge to Nowhere in Alaska or any of the other billions of dollars of pork-ola supported by the CongressCriminals, maybe even yours, do you dare to write and ask him (or her)?


Don't you love it when the DoD, Rumsfeld.... and by extension the Bush 1600 Crew fights for you? Anymore of this kind of love, and you could be getting billed by collection agencies while you're recuperating from those shrapnel wounds from last weeks IED explosion.

Oh, wait, that's already happened. Never mind.


One might almost argue that Dr Winkenwerder is trying to be a good guardian of our tax dollars at work...except he's trying to make sure he guards them for the next round of tax cuts for the Friends of the Bush 1600 Crew.


This bunch of misfits and unscrupulous, disfunctional idiots should be run out of town on a rail!

[urbsdad6]

Remind me again, Dr Winkenwerder how much money we have paid CheneyBurton and other companies to mis-manage contracts in Iraq?

What? Do you mean no bid contracts and cronyism isn't appropriate behavior? I thought that was the American way along with not closing the borders and ports. Hmmmmm...guess I'm mistaken.

Once again Gimpy, we be screwed blue and tattooed!


Doc Urb

[Gimpy]

You are right Doc!......................