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MOAA particularly objects to the commission proposal to require em- ployers to reimburse DoD for any of their employees who use TRICARE. Not only would this abrogate long-
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standing government promises that a career of military service would earn lifetime health care coverage, but it also would institute a perversely inap- propriate deterrent for civilian em- ployers to hire military retirees. It’s difficult to conceive a more insensitive and retention-choking system than one that requires two or three decades of arduous service, forces the majority of its career personnel out of uniform between ages 38 and 52, and then imposes a powerful impediment to their post- service employment prospects. Similarly, the proposal to reduce
TFL value by up to $3,000 a year for Medicare-eligible military retirees ($6,000 a year for married couples) flies in the face of Congress’ intent when it authorized TFL in 2001. Most egregious, among those
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Col Philip N. Brown, USAF-Ret. LTC Philip A. Brummit, USA-Ret. Maj James M. Bruner, USAF-Ret. CAPT Harry E.C. Budd Jr., USCG-Ret. LTC Herbert W. Burch Jr., USA-Ret. COL Robert L. Burdick, USA-Ret. LTC Marvin E. Burge, USA-Ret. MAJ Fred A. Burki, AUS-Ret. LTC Winifried W. Butler, USA-Ret. COL Joseph J. Callahan, USA-Ret. Capitol Area (Mich.) Chapter CAPT Paul D. Cash, USN-Ret. MajGen and Mrs. Matthew P. Caulfield, USMC-Ret. BG and Mrs. James A. Cerrone, USA-Ret.
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CAPT James K. Channell, USPHS-Ret. Col Anthony J. Chiota, USAF-Ret. Barbara A. Cirincione CWO2 Morley J. Clapp Jr., USN-Ret. Maj Bobby E. Clark, USMC-Ret. CW3 Michael B. Clark, USA-Ret. Lt Col Gary L. Cloninger, ANG-Ret. CAPT Robert C. Cochran, USN-Ret. CAPT Byron P. Compton, USN-Ret. LTC Terry L. Conder, ARNG MAJ James P. Connell, USA-Ret. COL John J. Connolly, USA-Ret. CAPT Joseph P. Costabile, USNR CDR Henry R. Counihan, USN-Ret. Mary Ellen Coyle CAPT Edward H. Crabbs, USN-Ret. LTC Thomas T. Craven, USA-Ret. (continues on page 104)
hurt most by these proposals would be severely wounded warriors with families, who would have to absorb the regular TRICARE fee hikes for their families, have their already reduced employment opportunities further impeded, and pay up to an extra $3,000 a year for their own care — all for the privilege of having been grievously wounded in their country’s service.
Family support programs The fiscal commission proposed: • consolidating commissary and ex- change facilities and raising prices to reduce the federal subsidy and • closing DoD dependent schools in the U.S. and shifting all military chil- dren to civilian schools. MOAA and Congress have re-
sisted past efforts to reduce the commissary
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