Bush Proposal/Tricare or VA not Both

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President Bush:

We petition you to withdraw your proposal that military retirees must choose between enrollment in Tricare or Veterans Administration (VA) healthcare.

Many military retirees have a service connected disability from injuries or illnesses contacted during their 20 plus years of honorable service to this great nation. In many cases this requires specialized treatment that is not available from local doctors. At the VA this is an earned free entitlement.

If a retiree is forced to choose Tricare for the medical care they would be responsible for the Tricare co-payment on their service connected disability. This would force a financial hardship upon many. This would be another erosion of our benefits.

Military retirees have earned and were promised healthcare for serving 20 plus years of honorable service. We need the option to be enrolled in both healthcare systems in order to maintain our health and receive the quality of care we earned by our sacrifices.

This proposal will affect over 1.8 million retirees. The nations longest serving veterans. All military retirees are veterans but not all veterans are military retirees.


We urge you to withdraw this proposal.

4028 Signatures

  • Patti Y. Roberts
  • Weldon Roberts
  • Art Schefler
    • Comments
    • Remember Promises!!
  • Eugene D. Brown
  • Charles Revie
    • Comments
    • Just another broken promise in the making
  • Sfc James F. Widener USA Retired
    • Comments
    • Yet another way to sock it to us retirees.
  • Rex C Roark
    • Comments
    • MCPO USN RET
  • Norman J. Campbell
  • Sue A Roark
  • Jim Hobbs, MSG, US Army Retired
    • Comments
    • Mr President; If these were duplicate programs then I too would say "one or the other." These are not duplicate programs and either one we select we lose. They complement each other rather well so the programs are not broke so please don't try to fix them. Sincerely Yours. Jim Hobbs
  • Durward L. Forbes
  • Mrs. Russell A.Volkert
    • Comments
    • Who said Bush was smart?
  • Russell A. Volkert, Msgt, USAF, Ret 55-75
    • Comments
    • Another Stupid Bean Counter Idea
  • Jessie D. Dye
    • Comments
    • President Bush, I am a 100% disabled retiree 30 years U.S. Navy, served in World War II, Korea and Vietnam, please take care of this old three war veteran.
  • Ruth G Gorby
    • Comments
    • Deceive, Delay and Deny
  • R.M. (Pete) Peterson Jr.
    • Comments
    • Why my family Mr. President?
  • Carol Peterson
    • Comments
    • Military Retirees should also have choice, just like other citizens of this country. How come a vet with FEHBP can use VA services and a Military Retiree with TRICARE cannot?
  • Robert Riordan
    • Comments
    • The son of read my lips speaks with forked lips.
  • johnny eastridge
  • Donald L. Bordwell
  • Mary K. Dye
    • Comments
    • President Bush, I am the wife of Jessie D. Dye (58) years of wedded bliss, and time I was left alone to raise our children, over twenty four years of his thirty was aboard ships deployed, his SAYING WAS HAZE GREY and UNDERWAY and how true, so MR President please do what is right by him and all of the other retirees. Thanking you in advance, for I know you will do what is best for all of us.
  • James Washburn
  • JOHN R. MAY
    • Comments
    • The Bush Proposal/Tricare or VA not both STINKS!
  • Mary Jane Juffer
  • Harold R. Lorenz, Jr
  • Jerry B. Smith
  • James P. Ret
    • Comments
    • "A Promise Made is a Debt Unpaid"
  • leon adams
    • Comments
    • Mr President: You are proposing something that is not only unfair to most disabled veterans and their families but also unworkable. Please reconsider and abandon this idea. Respectfully, Leon Adams, USAF Ret, (a disabled veteran)
  • Roger Frederick
    • Comments
    • This is the most stupidest idea since the USFSPA.
  • Chuck Thomes USN (ret)
  • Chuck Thomes USN (ret)
    • Comments
    • HEY STOP..Whats that sound??.. Another benefit going down!!!!!
  • Henry Powers
    • Comments
    • Mr.President, we are trying to be nice cause we know you have idiots working for you but, that won't last!!
  • VINCENT S. BOGDANSKY
  • Richard E. Deschaine
  • David M. Penney
  • EOC Dave W. Reeves USN-Ret.
  • lawrence Walker
  • Alis D. Anuszewski
  • Mike Schroeder
  • Robert Ploeckelmann
  • Dean Bostley
    • Comments
    • Let's do the right thing for a change!!!!!!!!!!!
  • Earl Warmath MSG. U.S. Army (Retired)
    • Comments
    • A promise made must be a promise kept!!!
  • katherine Razdoroff
  • steven covington
    • Comments
    • Get with the program.
  • Terry Snyder
    • Comments
    • You're beginning to lose some of those valuable votes you needed to put you where you are today GW. Stop this and the USFSPA insanity now. Give us back what was EARNED and PROMISED.
  • Raymond M. Belvin
  • Roy S. Alba II
  • Floyd M. Quisenberry
  • Olan Payne
    • Comments
    • Requiring Mil. Retirees to chose saves no money it only puts an additional burden on Military Retirees who are also disabled.
  • Arl D. King