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    LL>>> granting full benefits to same-sex couples, including   
    LL>>> TRICARE, housing allowances, subsistence allowances, and   
    LL>>> family separation allowances by Sept. 3.   
      
   BK>>Universal health care would make Tricare irrelevant.   
      
    LL> As it should.  However, the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare)   
    LL> is NOT universal health care.  It is an improvement from   
    LL> what we had before, but even when fully implemented far   
    LL> from what Americans need and truly deserve.   
      
    That is true. It's a first step, not a panacea.   
      
    LL> What exactly do Americans need and truly deserve?  Improved   
    LL> Medicare for All via single-payer health care.   
      
    It could be done within the same general system we have now.   
    Most other industrialized countries do it, but they regulate it   
    much more.   
      
    In this country I believe the republicans are going to force   
    single payer on us, by simply destroying the system we have now.   
    Impoverish too many people, reduce business to the point where   
    few get medical benefits, and you have a failed system.   
      
    LL> Notice I did not say Obamacare, Romneycare or Hillarycare.   
      
    I noticed.   
      
    LL> Leecare is the solution.  Paid for by Bob K. and US   
    LL> taxpayers.   
      
    Uhh... wait a minute until I get my boots on.   
      
   BK>>Subsistance allowances are granted to all military above   
   BK>>a certian rank, or were when I was in. I believe it was E3   
   BK>>or E4. Housing allowances are given when base housing is   
   BK>>not available.   
      
    LL> Regardless of rank, our men and women in uniform deserve   
    LL> better than what they get.  What we have today is a   
      
    Oh is that ever true.   
      
    LL> mercenary army that has been brainwashed to think that only   
    LL> they can save the world. The reality is far different, as   
      
    They have learned that. 10 years of foreign wars have taught   
    them that.   
      
    LL> it is led by a president who is a wimp (re: Syria).   
      
    Bush was the whimp. Obama is trying desperately to keep from   
    getting us into another military trap. Syria? Which side really   
    did use the poison gas?   
      
    He suffers from the same failing Bush did, the inability to name   
    the real enemy, Saudi Arabia.   
      
   BK>>IOW, BFD.   
      
    LL> That is exactly what President Assad of Syria said about   
    LL> President Obama's warning not to cross that red line ...   
      
    He may learn the hard way.   
      
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