Taking Care of Veterans

Or not. I read this post about increases in military health care premiums over at Veterans For Grant.

When I demobilized, I got a card good for two months of health care through Tri-Care. We were also told to sign up for health care through the Veterans Administration, which would provide health care for two years from demobilization. In January I signed up at the VA and made my first appointment. The VA is so backed up that my appointment was made for September. A nine-month wait for VA health care. A third of my entitlement period used up in just waiting to be seen. (They told me that had I had an emergency, I could have gotten an earlier appointment.)

A bill has been languishing in Congress to reduce the retirement age by one year for every two years a reservist serves past 20. Now I can draw the retirement at age 60. With 22 years service, you could draw at age 59, 24 years = age 58, etc., stopping at age 55. This bill is going nowhere.

If our government is serious about supporting our troops, it might taken action on one of these items. (end)