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Broken Promise from US Government on Military Veteran Healthcare

"If It Weren't For The United States Military - There Would Be NO United States of America"

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MOAA Legislative Updates - Informative information for Vets.
(Updated 11-27-06)

The Greatest Swindle of All Time

Click Logo or link below for THE MILITARY RETIREE MEDICAL CARE
BROKEN PROMISE ISSUE web site

http://mrgrg-ms.org/swindle00.html

MRGRG-MS-Talk Discussion Group site
(New 04-12-06)

Fred Sears - My message to the United States Congress
(New 05-31-06)

MRGRG-MS Switching to the MRGRG-MS-TALK discussion group - staying in touch
(New 03-23-06)

mrgrg-ms-talk Digest Number 1116 - There are 13 messages in this issue
(New 03-26-06)

mrgrg-ms-talk - Digest Number 1117 - There are 6 messages in this issue
(New 03-27-06)

mrgrg-ms-talk- Digest Number 1118 - 4 messages in this issue
(New 03-28-06)

mrgrg-ms-talk - Digest Number 1119 - 14 messages in this issue
(New 03-28-06)

mrgrg-ms-talk- Digest Number 1120 - 12 messages in this issue
(New 03-30-06)

mrgrg-ms-talk - Digest Number 1121 - 13 messages in this issue
(New 03-31-06)

mrgrg-ms-talk - Digest Number 1122 - 15 messages in this issue
(New 04-02-06)

mrgrg-ms-talk - Digest Number 1123 - 8 messages in this issue
(New 04-02-06)

mrgrg-ms-talk - Digest Number 1124 - 6 messages in this issue
(New 04-03-06)

mrgrg-ms-talk - Digest Number 1125 - 10 messages in this issue
(New 04-04-06)

mrgrg-ms-talk - Digest Number 1126 - 16 messages in this issue
(New 04-05-06)

A Plan

A message to a civilian supporter on Keep Our Promise to America's Military Retirees Act, HR602

A Proclamation issued by Floyd Sears, MSGT, USAF, retired, a member of the MRGRG

A Proclamation issued by Floyd Sears, MSGT, USAF, retired, a member of the MRGRG, 8 Jan 2006

A schedule for FAXing messages to the Congress Revised

A site in support of the Broken Promise action group
(New 02-06-06)

America has betrayed its obligations to its warriors

Announcement of an initiative to pay Tribute to Col George E. "Bud" Day

Colonel Bud Day Tribute

Brown Bag Town Hall Meeting Senator Bill Nelson, Jan 12. 2006

The Brown Bag Project has spawned new vehicles which are designed get information to the Congress in the form of two new web pages

Broken Promise letter to Senator Barbara Boxer

Buyer asks for more VA money

Charlie Adams' fax to Congress on broken promises
Classact Group: Final Plan to Pressure National Defense Authorization Act Conference Committee Members

Class Act Group Closing Down 31 December 2005

Class Act Group State Coordinator Status

Classact Group Brown Bag Project

Classact Group Brown Bag Project up and running - got suggestions?

Congressman Mike Honda replies to my HR 602 & HR 4949 IMA MAIL
(New 04-25-06)

DoD Continues its “Sustain the Benefit” Campaign to Justify Beneficiary Cost Hikes

DOD is hell-bent to raise TRICARE fees...will you standby and allow it?

DoD sets new Tricare co-pays for 2007
The updated 2007 cost shares for Tricare beneficiaries are now available from the Defense Department. Every year, the federal government tweaks the elaborate system that determines the amount doctors get paid for care and procedures, known as “reimbursement rates.” Those changes, in turn, translate into changes in cost shares, or co-pays, for insurance beneficiaries.
Tricare officials said this year’s changes are “few and small.”
(New 11-21-06)

FAX A REPRESENTATIVE ~
See http://mrgrg-ms.org/fax-it-senate.html for Web Page, Address, Phone Number, FAX Number, and E-mail or Web Form contact information for Senators of the 109th Congress.

Games the White House is Playing With Military Retirees

Games the White House is Playing With Military Retirees II

HR 4949 and S 2617
(New 04-19-06)

IF IT WEREN'T FOR THE U.S. MILITARY THERE WOULD NOT BE A UNITED STATES OF AMERICA" QUESTIONS?

It is a false and inappropriate choice

List of Representatives that cosponsored HR 3474, but have not cosponsored HR 602

MOAA Legislative Action Center - Oppose Military Health Fee Hikes

Reply to my email Oppose Misguided Military Health Fee Increases

Military Retirees Targeted by DOD
MRGRG-MS - 18Jan06 Daily totals of FAXes or Web Form messages
MRGRG-MS - A letter from Congressman Gene Taylor

MRGRG-MS - According to data I captured

MRGRG-MS - AMERICANS ARE WE STUPID?

MRGRG-MS - Another letter on Keep Our Promise To America's Military Retirees Act
(New 03-28-06)

MRGRG-MS - Answered to an e-mail inquiry

MRGRG-MS - Change Number 2 to the Brown Bag Project plan - 21 Jan 2006

MRGRG-MS - CUTS IN MEDICARE AFFECT MILITARY RETIREES

MRGRG-MS - DoD proposed Tricare fee increases
(New 03-19-06)

MRGRG-MS - E-Newsletter from Senator Kit Bond
(New 03-01-06)

MRGRG-MS - Ending the "widow's tax"

MRGRG-MS - ERIC MASSA FOR CONGRESS FROM N.Y.

MRGRG-MS - FAX-A-REP Numbers Summary 020606

MRGRG-MS FAX A REP Summary for 012006

MRGRG-MS - FAX A REPRESENTATIVE schedule for next week

MRGRG-MS - Fwd: Military Health Care

MRGRG-MS - How many messages are we sending to the Congress on a daily basis
(New 03-01-06)

MRGRG-MS - Let me see if I can simplify the procedure

MRGRG-MS - lonestargrp: Veterans Event in D.C. Apr 25-26 2006

MRGRG-MS - Looking for ammunition
(New 03-16-06)

MRGRG-MS - Message for the Democratic National Committee

MRGRG-MS - Mil. Retiree Medical Care

MRGRS-MS - Military Retire Medical Care Senate FAX List for Feb 13-14, 2006

MRGRG-MS - Military Retiree Grass Roots Group - working the military retiree medical care broken promise issue

MRGRG-MS - Message from Congressman James Langevin regarding H. R. 602

MRGRG-MS- No TRICARE Fee Increase - Why Am I Wrong?
(New 04-23-06)

MRGRG-MS - Oppose Misguided Military Health Fee Increases

MRGRG-MS - Fwd Responding to your message. Senator Boxer

MRGRG-MS - General Peter Pace, Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Supports "Renorming" TRICARE

MRGRG-MS - It is not magic - it is just a little detective work

MRGRG-MS - Last minute changes to the FAX A REPRESENTATIVE web page

MRGRG-MS - lonestargrp - Pelosi and Edwards Statements on TRICARE
(New 03-30-06)

MRGRG-MS - Military Retiree Medical Care

MRGRG-MS - Mil. Retiree Medical Care Senate FAX List for Jan 30-31 and Feb 1-3

Military Retiree Medical Care email to Congressman Honda by your Web Master

Military Retiree Medical Care email to Senator Boxer by your Web Master

MRGRG-MS - Military Tricare Increases--Cuts--But Not For The Superdome
(New 03-04-06)

MRGRG-MS - Misguided Military Health Care Fee Increase Proposals

MRGRG-MS - MOAA Update - Health Fees and Force Cuts Debated

NY Times Op Ed SBP/DIC - Left Behind

MRGRG-MS - Please send a message for me

MRGRG-MS - PMOAANET Legislative and Retiree Affairs Advisory 07-06
(New 03-04-06)

MRGRG-MS - Presidential Request Aims to Prevent Falloff in Pensions for Part ...

MRGRG-MS - Proposed TRICARE and Pharmacy Changes

MRGRG-MS - Proposed Tricare Cost Matrix

MRGRG-MS - Re: FYI - http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/congdir.tt

MRGRG-MS - re: HR 4078

MRGRG-MS- Record Book entry by Jim Berry of interest to most Vets

MRGRG-MS - Responding to your message - a response from Senator Chambliss

MRGRG-MS - Schedule update to FAX or Web Form messages to the Congress

MRGRG-MS - Substantially Higher Part B Premiums in 2007
(New 03-04-06)

MRGRG-MS - Some FAX A REP Numbers extracted from

MRGRG-MS - The message Tracking System at http://mrgrg-ms.org/educate-the-congress.html

MRGRG-MS - The military retiree medical care broken promise issue and fee increases

MRGRG-MS The Sun Herald LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

MRGRG-MS - The Col. George E. "Bud" Day Department of Military Science and ROTC at Okaloosa-Walton College
(New 04-02-06)

MRGRG-MS - There is no excuse for not being involved in the MR medical care effort

MRGRG-MS - Total messages sent

MRGRG-MS - TRICARE Fee Increase can be stopped...but, it will take YOU

MRGRG-MS - TRICARE Receives Rate Cut Reprieve with House Passage of Budget Agreement

MRGRG-MS - Update on http://mrgrg-ms.org/bb-daily-totals.html

MRGRG-MS - U.S. House of Representative Ways and Means Committee Suggested Action
(New 03-26-06)

MRGRG-MS - USDR Capwiz Action Alert Activity as of 28 Feb 2006
(New 03-02-06)

MRGRG-MS - Veterans Budget Update from Congressman Chet Edwards
(New 03-02-06)

MRGRG-MS - We are cheating the system

MRGRG-MS - We URGENTLY need your help!
(New 03-01-06)

MRGRG-MS - lonestargrp Web Forms and Form Fill

MRGRF-MS - Web Forms and how they are used

MRGRG-MS - Web Forms and Form Fill outs

MRGRG-MS - What Military Retirees Must Do To Regain Promised Medical Care

MRGRG-MS - Your Social Security and Medicare Advisor, Vol. 11, No. 3
(New 03-02-06)

mrgrg-ms-talk - A reply from Congress Woman Heather Wilson

mrgrg-ms-talk - FAX sent 1 Feb 2006 to Senator Collins

mrgrg-ms-talk - Last part of this article MRs under 65
(New 02-11-06)

MRGRG-MS - the diabolical nature of Congress
(New 04-02-06)

mrgrg-ms-talk - NAUS Alert TRICARE Increases

NAUS Legislative Action Center

Norman Campbell e-mail on Tricare For Life

PETITION TO RESTORE FULL RETIREMENT PAY TO ALL DISABLED

Plan to Raise Military Retirees' Health Costs Faces a Tough Fight
(New 03-19-06)

President Bush Should Follow His Own Advice on Veterans, Says Democratic National Committee

Senator Boxer reply on proposals to raise Tricare fees and deductibles for some military retirees and their families

Senator Boxer reply regarding the Department of Defense Survivor Benefit Plan
(New 03-05-06)

Stamps going up again? Blame the Military Retirees!!!

The Classact e-mail list will be closing down

The U.S. government continues to deny medically retired veterans pay they earned
(New 04-02-06)

Unconscionable spike in health care costs
(New 11-19-06)

Update on the Van Hollen "Keep Our Promise to America's Military Retirees Act" -- 31 January 2006 -- Additional Cosponsors

Vets angry over a Bush plan to charge a co-pay for VA medical care - It's a stab in the back,' vets say

Health, Medicare, TriCare and You

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FDA and CDC PUBLIC HEALTH ADVISORY: Infections from Endoscopes Inadequately Reprocessed by an Automated Endoscope Reprocessing System
(New 08-16-07)

Understanding Veteran's Health Care
(New 12-05-06)

Heart Attack Slide Show - Know what to do to survive if you are alone when it hits!
(New 05-31-06)

High staph infection rates in hospitals stun public health officials
New study reports lethal drug-resistant bacteria widespread
(New 06-25-07)

Adjustments Essential to Maintaining Tricare, Official Says
(New 02-02-06)

Affluent veterans excluded from VA health care

Ask yourself if fee increase makes Tricare worth it

Attention all VA Patients: Refill your Prescriptions Online!

Battle Over Tricare - What The Military Coalition Wants - Lower Taxes ....
(New 03-02-06)

BRAC Will Facilitate Medical Transformation, Official Says
(New 02-02-06)

Cajun Math - how the US Government cannot count and Military Retirees and dependent get chiseled out of your earned Healthcare benefits
(New 04-09-06)

Capwiz Bill Note for Mar 03, 2006 - HR 2356, HR 994, HR 995
(New 03-04-06)

Chemo Angels
Chemo Angels is a nonprofit
organization dedicated to helping people who are undergoing chemotherapy.

Chapter 61 Military Retirees

Combat-Related Special Compensation Update

Companies Retaining Retiree Drug Benefits

Concurrent receipt for medical retirees with less than 20 years of service

Congress Must Block White House From Cutting Military Health Care
(New 03-22-06)

Congressman Mike Honda reply to Military Retiree Medical Care (TRICARE) Fee Increases

Congressman Mike Honda reply on 4 Veteran issues with same diatribe against Bush and Iraq
(New 02-13-07)

Military Retiree Medical Care (TRICARE) Fee Increases - Take Action!

MILITARY RETIREES -vs- MILITARY VETERANS THE DIFFERENCE
(New 01-22-07)

Military Health Care News 032406
(New 03-26-06)

Defusing the Medicare Time Bomb

Democratic Leaders Urge President Bush to Rethink Increasing the Costs of Veterans' Health Care

Disability Pension Benefits -- What Is VA Disability Pension?

DoD against Medical Care for Military Retirees

DOD Can afford Military Retirees & Widows, if they Wanted to

Fight over Pentagon proposal to raise health care fees begins

Final Plan For Higher Retiree TRICARE Fees Unveiled

Funding and fees would rise under 2007 VA budget

‘Free lifetime health care’ not law of land

FREE Long-Term Care Insurance For Federal Employees & Retirees

General Ryan's Comments Military Retiree Healthcare

Give em' an inch and they'll take a mile - More TRICARE drugs eyed for a $22 copay

Google Alert - Tricare for Life - Many Doctors don't understand that TFL is a Medicare supplement
(New 06-04-06)

Government tries to fix troubled TriCare system

Health Care Cost-Shifting to Military Beneficiaries
You veterans !!! Help out your fellow veteran retirees !!!

Health care for military retirees is our obligation, not a favor
(New 03-26-06)

High health costs to hurt Troops and retired Military Vets

Hunter and Skelton - 2007 Budget inadequate (note particularly paragraphs 4, 5 & 6)
(New 03-07-06)

How TRICARE changes when a uniformed services member retires

How Tricare For Life works

How Will SSA Assist TRICARE Beneficiaries?

HSI e-Alert - Amber Ambush

IMMEDIATE ACTION NECESSARY = House Budget Committee to Decide Level of Funding for VA on Wednesday, 8 March 2006
(New 03-04-06)

Initial Part D Enrollment Numbers Indicate Strong Retiree Participation

Injustice to Military Veterans
(New 03-04-06)

Joint Chiefs to Back Higher TRICARE Fees for Retirees

Keep The Promise Alive In 2005 - VAN HOLLEN BILL WOULD MAKE GOOD ON PROMISED HEALTH CARE FOR MILITARY VETERANS - HR 602

Letter to my Senators & Congressman on TriCare

Little bit of sweat may help seniors stave off dementia

Update on HR 602 the Van Hollen "Keep Our Promise to America's Military Retirees Act"
Bill to give retirees free health care reintroduced
Tim Johnson Introduces Bill to Enhance Health Care for Military Retirees

Medicare Cuts and VA Health Care Issues

Medicare Part B and Tricare for Life

Medicare Part D and You

Medicare Part D versus TRICARE Pharmacy Benefits

Medicare, Part D drug plan much costlier than VA drugs

Medicare Rx Education Network Releases Mos

Medicare premiums to see record rise

Medicare Rx Education Network Releases Most Frequently Asked Questions

Military Retiree Already Warned About Using TRICARE
(New 06-04-06)

Military Retiree Medical Care - Regardless of age all military retirees are at risk

Military Retiree Medical Care (TRICARE) Fee Increases

Military Update - Defense officials address retirees’ Tricare concerns

Military Update - Pharmacies putting end to the Tricare paper trail

Misunderstanding on New Tricare Web site
(New 01-02-07)

More on Medicare and TRICARE for Life
(New 05-06-06)

More TRICARE Costs Being Shifted to Retirees

More Vets Get Health Care, but 'Priority 8' Is Like Priority Zero

New Study Shows Women's Health Care Similar to Men's at VA

No retirees' Tricare fee hikes - for now
(New 03-22-06)

Payments for Traumatic Injuries Begin Under New VA Insurance Program

Physicians are getting dead serious about not taking Medicare patients

Priority Group 8 - Some Veterans To Have Hospital Co-payments Reduced

PTSD cases will ‘totally overwhelm’ country, experts say

No Across-the-Board Review of PTSD Cases - Secretary Nicholson

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

Rare Form of Breast Cancer - Paget's disease

Retirees expected to shoulder more costs for health care

Retirees win some, lose some in Congress
(New 11-18-06)

MOAA Rebuts Proposed Health Fee Increases

Repeal the VA Patient Enrollment System

Rising Medical Costs Worry Pentagon and The Hill

Retiree Health Care & Insurance

SecDef testimony Feb 7th - Section on Defense Health program and HSAs ...Former USN Surgeon General speaks out

Say No To Increased TRICARE Fees
(New 03-04-06)

Senator says Scrap TRICARE

Senator John Warner of Virginia Rejects Military Widows Bid for Justice

Social Security and Medicare Advisor Email Newsletter

South Dakota senators seek full funding for vets’ health care

Someone asked me what the latest on Concurrent Receipt and SBP was......

Staying in Tricare at 65 requires Medicare Part B
(New 01-12-07)

Stop the Medicare and Tricare Cuts Coming in January 2006

Stroke Recognition can save YOUR Life

Support HR 1366 for Chapter 61 Retirees in the 2006 NDAA

The push to save Tricare Prime where bases are closing

The Price Tag of War Continues Long After The Last Shot is Fired

There Is a One Year Deadline to File TRICARE Claims

TMA Fact Sheet: Medicare Part D and TRICARE

TRICARE Benefits Extremely Rich - What??

TRICARE Beneficiaries Can Save Time, Money With New Service
(09-19-07)

Tricare fee hike assailed
(New 03-22-06)

TRICARE Fee Increase

Tricare Fee Increase Survey
(New 03-08-06)

TRICARE For Life Eligibility Deadline Extended

Tricare for Life or Tricare Plus

Tricare Help

Tricare Help -- Consider cost, coverage in insurance decision

Tricare Help -- Drug price hikes not taken lightly

Tricare Help - Help spread the word about health benefits

Tricare Help -- Initial Tricare for Life claim can be tricky
(New 03-08-06)

Tricare Help - Leaving Medicare Plan D isn’t difficult

Tricare Help -- Part D voluntary — for now

Tricare Help - Tricare pharmacy coverage needs no help from Part D

Tricare Help -Tell Tricare if you lose other coverage
(New 04-17-06)

TRICARE Increase Update - It's Not All Good News
(New 05-15-06)

Tricare Management Activity Fact Sheet

TRICARE Management Activity releases the 2006 Tricare rates

Tricare mail orders could save millions
(New 03-30-06)

TRICARE Military Health Service

Tricare Officials Encourage Educated Decisions on Medicare Part D

TRICARE Rate Increases for Military Retirees

TRICARE reimbursement rates 2007
(New 11-27-06)

TRICARE Unveils New Extended Care Health Option

Updated June 6, 2005 TRICARE Pharmacy Program

U.S. Family Health Plan Receives URAC Health Network Accreditation

VA Addresses Nurse Shortage

VA Announces Online Pharmacy

VA chief backs health benefits for Filipinos who fought for United States

VA Contacts "Project SHAD" Veterans

VA gives workers guidance on switching prescriptions
(New 11-28-06)

VA Health Care

VA Health Care Eligibility

Veterans Health Care Outscores Private Sector – Again

VA medical system earns high customer satisfaction ratings

VA Offers Better Prices Than What Will Be Available Through New Medicare Drug Plans, Study Says

VA Offers Prescription Refill Service

VA ponders limited one-time payments

VA Prescription Co-Pays to Increase by $1

VA program practical model for Medicare

VA putting medical records online

VA Response to IG Recommendations

VA Response to IG Report on Disability Compensation

VA Seeks Chemically Exposed Vets from WWII and their survivors

VA slow to find veterans eligible for disability pay

VA To Reform Health Care Procurement Process

VA to Study Health Care Access in South Texas

Veterans are dying at a rate of 1,849 per day

Veterans' Groups Call for More Federal Funding of Health Care ProgramsWake up retirees and PAY ATTENTION--It's later than you think

Veterans and lawmaker join to fight plan to raise health care fees

Waiving TRICARE Deductibles and Cost Shares is Illegal
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