While President Barack Obama is celebrating the survival
of his so-called "Affordable Care Act," he is busy making health care
less affordable for the nation's military families. As the Washington
Free Beacon reports, the President is threatening to veto a defense
appropriations bill unless military families have to pay higher fees for
TRICARE, the military's health insurance program. The Obama administration
ostensibly wants to help the Pentagon save money; the real motive is to make
TRICARE less attractive than costlier Obamacare exchanges.
The Free Beacon notes that the bill that passed the House
of Representatives, with bipartisan support, refused to incorporate the
President's request for higher TRICARE fees--and the administration has
expressed displeasure.
Once again, we see that Obama's supposed devotion to
military families--a cause purportedly dear to the First Lady's heart--does not
extend beyond using military families as political props, whether as salve for
Obama's anti-war sentiments or as campaign-commercial fodder to make Obama look
like a better leader than he actually is. Despite President Obama's penchant for referring to "his" solders, his
affected affection evidently only goes so far. Obama's real goal is to protect
Obamacare, and to advance his ambition of transforming the nation--and if the
health care of America's military families must suffer, so be it. It's not as if he's relying on military votes.
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