so we've got this great program call ed tricare.active duty and their family for free. they can get a six-month bridge of tricare free of charge once they leave the service while they're looking for civilian employment. now, beyond that if they're still unlucky and they haven't found that civilian job, they can get another 18 months to 36 months of tricare, but at sort of a hefty price of $300 for singles and $600 a month for families. so what i would suggest instead is maybe you take that active duty service, turn it into reserve or guard service because there's a program called tricare reserve select which is fairly new. and it comes at a much cheaper price of about $50 for singles and about $200 a month for families. so that may be a great way to go. in my book, ali, health insurance is non-negotiable. you've got to have it. >> let me ask you something. a lot of people who have never been involved in the military haven't heard the word tricare before. for the first time, it's become part of this discussion about cutting the defic

tricare and it handled trop really good on a low-profile basis provide the following for our worldwide family, and orientation center to recruit politicians for a leadership led by god, a communication center for the worldwide work and housing for members of the corps, the family. well, the deal fell through but the housing needs were met by a building on capitol hill on c street which is called simply c street. this is the house that most of us had never heard of until the three right-wing fundamentalists got caught in the headlights when they were engaged in some marital misdemeanors. [laughter] mark sanford and john ensign and chip pickering. that was what we read about in the papers at that time was the headline version. jeff is here to tell us about all the clandestine inner workings of the group and also you will be surprised to know its ambitious plans for expansion, global expansion, so here is jeff. [applause] >> thanks barbour and i'm just going to put this phone here to keep me honest with time, not because i am texting while reading. so thanks for coming out and joining me.

care my health care i didn't come here for a pension plan i didn't come here for the pay by the way tricare term limits so i'm not taking the pension i'm not taking pay raises and my family and i are bringing our own health care to washington d.c. and my dad you know those are two future congressman that we can actually comment when the new congress is sworn in january there will be forty three republican senators and at least two hundred and thirty nine republicans in the house maybe a few more because there are still five races out there there's still too close to call so come on members of the republican party walk the walk if you're going to talk the talk i have a feeling about it's never going to happen in fact earlier this week in maryland congressman elect andy harris he became upset at freshman orientation when he was told his health care wouldn't kick in until february first of next year he's so mad that his government run health care is being delayed but he still wants to repeal the measure for millions of americans are you guys just love the hypocrites and that goes for all the o

tricare is something that is -- >> you want to talk about holy water.that is. >> they even took it out of health care reform. took it out because they didn't want to worry -- didn't want to worry the veterans and retirees and active military. >> it is back on the table. >> this is a fight that they're not going to give up easily. >> this is not an easy solution. barbara, thanks, so much. christine, as always, thanks so much. >>> the first jet pack out there -- >> that is fun. look at that. how can that not be fun? who doesn't want to do is that that? i would do it in a place with more space. >> and more padding. wall paper to deflect a bomb blast. the best picks for the gadgets and breakthrough ideas that you're even my sweet little baby here -- not my children but my ipad. it is on the list. [ ted ] for years, i was just a brewer. until one of the guys brought in some fresh bread that he'd made from our pale ale. and from that first bite, i knew my business would never be the same. [ male announcer ] when businesses see an opportunity to grow, the hart

. >> bacon tricare from northern ireland. -- a contributor from northern ireland. >> i would like toay that i did not see that there is any way when honor can be preserved when innocent lives are being lost through where is the odder when we stand there killing innocent afghan civilians? it is a disgrace. there have been numerous protests to bring british troops home from both sides of the argument. what i propose is a gradual withdrawal end it is more efficient than having a set date. when we have that duty to go out and defend, we also have the right to preserve life, to stand up for people who want to carry on with their lives. they did not choose for britain to invade. the afghan civilians did not ask for this to happen. i am sure that many of them want to carry on their life and we should preserve that and we should let that happen. for our own moral good. thank you. >> thank you. i would like to hear someone from wells. -- wales. >> thank you. when we went to afghanistan, we made a pledge to the government would rid them of their fascist regime. we would stop the terror, the ty

23-year-olds home from college or home from the service or whatever and -- or if they don't have tricare and throw them off their parents' plan. that's what they want to do and repeal this health care plan. my only question, mr. president, is i guess i'm waiting for the first republican elected official, whether he's an attorney general around -- in ohio or elsewhere, or whether he's a congressman or she is a congressman or u.s. senator, i'm waiting for the first one who says, i want to repeal this plan, take away these consumer protections and i want to repeal this plan and take away health insurance from people that are in high-risk pools getting insurance now and people down the road who are going to get covered with health insurance, the 50 million americans who don't have it and tens of millions who don't have health care. i want them to say that they're not going to take their government health insurance. i can't believe the number of elected officials, mostly republicans, who have been the beneficiaries of government-sponsored health insurance, taxpayer financed health insurance f

, fees for physicians seeing tricare patients will be cut by 23% as well. madam speaker, i have to say that kind of cut is obviously not reason. we have a responsibility to ensure that medicare is a steady partner for physicians so that we're able to maintain the kind of excellence access to care that seniors and people with disabilities have come to expect from the program. medicare enrollees still enjoy better access to care than nearly everybody in the country. the rate cuts created by the s.g.r. would undermine that trust that seniors and physicians have historically had in the program. the 111th congress has passed into law three s.g.r. extensions in less than a year and this will be the fourth. i think we need to stop legislating s.g.r. policies in one to six-month intervals. i hope that before the 111th congress adjourns we can pass legislation addressing all of 2011 at a minimum. i continue to be frustrated that we're unable to move beyond short-term fixes facing the medicare program. the house passed legislation in 2009 that i coponsored that would

and the reality is that the co-payments for tricare, which is a very good program, certainly on par withany others in the country, have not changed since 1985. i think it is inescapable that a change will have to be made, and clearly these are matters before the executive to propose for the legislative branch to dispose. but we collectively as a family effectively serving and formerly serving members and families have to recognize that if we are not careful these unbounded costs can force out military content elsewhere in the department of defense portfolio. that is worrisome and something that we will have to address, do it come hushovd lee, rationally, but it needs to be addressed to estimate this question is about the ban on openly homosexual people serving in the military, so called don't ask don't tell law to review and the others said previously this year that you recommended that congress not act on to repeal the 1993 law ottilie survey of the troops had been completed. that survey is supposed to be done september 1st. if congress acts on it in december would that be acceptable to