Simpson said that group of people that never had to endure combat did not deserve Tricare! Well I'm sure serving in Congress is just as hazourdous as serving in the military! Yet he gets Health care for life serving in congress!
Here is how one retiree pu it when they started charging us for TriCare
Consider this:
What would you do if you made payments on a house for 20 years under what you thought was a contract only to discover that the contract wasn't authorized and the house isn't yours? What would you do if the people that sold you the house closed the house and told you that you could not live there anymore?
Would you fight for what is yours, or would you just roll over and play dead?
Now consider this:
What would you do if you served for 20 or more years in the military being told that if you served until retirement you would receive free medical care for yourself and your eligible dependents at military treatment facilities for as long as you or they lived only to discover, via a court ruling, that the promise wasn't authorized and the government reneges on the promise? What would you do if you were told that you could not use the military treatment facility where you had been receiving medical care for years, and you had to go on Medicare and pay for Medicare part B just like the average citizen that never served a day in the military?
"Promises of lifetime medical care were made to military officers by military officials for more than 50 years. Likewise Congress knew, or certainly should be charged with knowing, how the billions of dollars it appropriated for military medical care were allocated and that the amounts it appropriated for military pay were diminished by the imputed value of medical care on active duty and after retirement. Congress is presumed to know the terrain against which it legislates. To suggest it was oblivious, that it did not know military officials were promising medical care in accordance with its appropriations is pure sophistry. If it were otherwise, if Congress can appropriate billions for this aspect of national defense and not know how it is accounted for, then God save the Republic. Of course Congress knew; of course the service secretaries authorized promises in return for service; of course these military officers served until retirement in reliance; and of course there is a moral obligation to these men: it is called honoring the contract the United States made with them and which they performed in full. Because the court countenances the government’s breach of the implied contracts and its taking of the rights vested in these retired servicemen, I dissent." Reference
http://mrgrg-ms.org/f99-1402.html#conclusion2