Quote Originally Posted by Grumpy View Post
Pontooner, they make it sound like Military Health Care, for active duty and retirees, is a bad thing and a freebe which is not deserved. I'll have them and you know that when I joined the Army in 1956, I was told that if I stayed 20 years, I would never have another medical or dental bill the rest of my life.

I don't have the time nor space to go into how wrong that has been and how hard it has been for us retirees to get even part of what was promised to us. I put 23 years on Active Duty, including two trips to Viet Nam, and I feel that I have earned every bit of the Health Care that I can get from my Uncle Sam. Now to have Obama want to put me under the same socialized health care that 16 million illegal aliens will get, is a crying shame.

Thats my opinion.

Grumpy

Grumpy I didn't take the article that way at all and think it's great that we offer that kind of care for our service men/women and retirees, so please don't think I posted it with any disrespet towards serivice men/women. It was more that he is against goverment run healthcare like most pubs are but he and his family are covered under goverment run healthcare, that he speaks very highly of. Plus his voting record as far as veterans healthcare and his own health care are a little wishy washy. I know he is a politican and that's what they do but still makes you wonder.

Now on to a couple questions and such

If it were a guarantte that no illegal aliens would be covered, which is what is in the bill now do you think the pubs or yourself would be on board? I don't think so and while you started a Obama scare tatic post I see the illegal aliens will be covered as the real scare tatics being used.

Sorry to hear you had such a hard time getting what was promised to you. Are you covered by Tricare that is mentioned in the article? From what I've read about Tricare it is very well run and efficient, covers some 10 million plus people and would be a excellent modle to build goverment run healthcare on.