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	Name:	MrHodja -
	Subject:	Actually
	Date:	8/11/2009 7:47:05 AM

My position is that (and I will admit that I may be out of date, as I gave up on the military's version of life time health care a long time ago) the military should have the same level of care and the same CHOICES that I have now under BCBS. When I was active duty I and my family did not, and CHAMPUS after retirement was a joke. Maybe I misunderstand what is being proposed, but, even after almost 20 years of retirement, I still remember the hours we had to spend on hold waiting to get an appointment to see a doctor, and having NO choice as to who we saw.

And I am a bit concerned that our military no longer is composed of a true cross-section of our society. Lest anyone misconstrue my words, I AM PROUD OF THOSE WHO SERVE, and have the utmost respect for them. But the list of our country's leaders who haven't served is growing each year, and in my opinion one can only truly understand the military by having served.

By the way, why did you only list Republicans? What was the point in that? The military is, by law, non-partisan, and my post was non-partisan as well. You could have well populated your list with as many or more Democrats, starting with Obama and Clinton. Military health care has nothing to do with politics and shame on you and Archie for trying to use it to score a cheap-shot political point. Apparently you paint me with the same brush as some of the more strident posters. Just remember, I believe in logic and reason, and if someone can show me, logically and reasonably how the current administration's antics are good for the long-term viability of our country, I will listen. But it has to be logic and reason, not some pie-in-the-sky "it is going to be better because it is going to be different" rhetoric. You and Archie love to cherry-pick things that the previous administration did wrong. How about moving to the present and future and tell me how the Obama/Reid/Pelosi programs are going to improve the economy - not only over the next three years, but the next thirty as well.

Nasreddin Hodja