i have military health benefits in the form is what is called tricare.c-span: what does that mean in, steel have to pay for? >> guest: this is a very controversial topic in the the back senator mccain is trying to save money by making the co-pay higher so i pay about $400 a year, not a month, a year for tricare. so that is a super good deal. c-span: are you married with children? how many kids? >> guest: two, so they are all covered under that for the rest of your life. c-span: if you go before your wife goes dishy get coverage until the end of her life? >> guest: not medical coverage. she continues because she will get half of my retirement until she dies. that is something you elect to pay for. it's like is like an insurance policy. it is called as vp survivor benefit plan so i think what we are talking about here is the level of benefits for those who have dedicated themselves. c-span: let's get into the weeds for just a moment. we got this from your web site. this is the kind of money than an e. one, e. two in the three and i want you to explain what

i get medicare and tricare. i'm well with insurance but if they change it, i cannot afford to pay co-payments. congress should quit fighting between themselves and get together and do what we put them in there for and listen to the president. they don't necessarily have to do what he wants but should start doing what is best for our country. this is what is wrong, mainly congress. host: dorothy calling from cleveland, ohio, ryan's hope, romney taps wisconsin congressman for veep. caller: i think it is a very bad pick. i can't see us getting romney to be the president of the united states. ryan wants to do away with medicare and medicaid and give the tax breaks to the rich. i realize we are debted -- we are in a big debt, but you cannot cut the deficit without revenues. and you also can't give all the cuts to the middle class and the lower class and ask the up class to pay nothing. and you want to take the rest of the money after you have slashed everything and put billions and billions of dollars in the military

veteran is unable to receive timely health care from the va system, he or she will be allowed to see a tricare provider at the va's expense. i've said before that this must be an american century and to accomplish that, we must have the strongest military and the strongest economy in the world. regrettably, president obama has failed on both counts as his term in office comes to an end, we're now further from making this an american century. our economy's weak. and our military is bracing for devastating cuts. when a country is hurting at home, the biggest political debates are understandably about domestic issues. how to get small business growing again, how to get jobless americans back to work. how to show people who feel trapped in the stagnant economy that the hard times won't last forever because a better future is about to dawn. you and i know our debates can change suddenly with a ringing phone in the dead of the night or a grim-faced reporter in the middle of the day or a plume of smoke on a clear blue morning. the first job of government is to keep the american people safe. and as pr

i get medicare and tricare. i'm well with insurance but if they change it, i cannot afford to pay co-payments. congress should quit fighting between themselves and get together and do what we put them in there for and listen to the president. they don't necessarily have to do what he wants but should start doing what is best for our country. this is what is wrong mainly congress. host: dorothy calling from cleveland, ohio, ryan's hope, romney taps wisconsin congressman for veep. caller: i think it is a very bad pick. i can't see us getting romney to be the president of the united states. ryan wants to do away with medicare and medicaid and give the tax breaks to the rich. i realize we are debted -- we are in a big debt, but you cannot cut the deficit without revenues. and you also can't give all the cuts to the middle class and the lower class and ask the up class to pay nothing. and you want to take the rest of the money after you have slashed everything and put billions and billions of dollars in the military.

the at tricare when your flight was reached, the printed page, the website or the tv screen. we do make a difference. so this final thought if we truly care about what is happening in this country and in our world there are people in the news media and who we can put trust and if we can get our support. the best we to do this is to pay attention to what the right and broadcast, and to tune out the hate stores and the misogynist is, the racists and those who would divide us. if enough of us can do that, america will be a better informed and its democracy may yet be saved. thank you. [applause] [inaudible] >> so what we do? if i had the of siloed formula i would be selling at to the facebook owner for a billion dollars within five. what we can do is to pay attention to people that we know our not misogynist or racist or not shouting in ways to divide us. there are significant numbers of reporters dealing with foreign affairs and certainly in "the new york times," "the washington post" still has some, and the magazine's like the new yorker has some very good people and some of t

i get medicare and tricare for life. my doing well with insurance, but they change it, i cannot afford to pay. congress should quit fighting between themselves. they should get together and do what we put them in there for and listen to the president. they do not necessarily have to do what he wants, but patients are doing what is best for our country. what's wrong is mainly congress. host: dorothy on our line for democrats calling from cleveland, ohio. in "the new york daily news." caller: i think it is a very bad choice. i cannot see us voting romney to be the president's when he has a pick that will do away with medicare and medicaid. he is going to give the tax break to the rich. i realize we are in debt, but you cannot cut the deficit without revenue. you also cannot give all of the cuts to the middle and lower class and asked the upper class to pay nothing. then you want to take the rest of the money after you have slashed everything and put billions in the military? you cannot have it both ways. one thing about pr