Retired Air Force Colonel and Medal-of-Honor holder George
“Bud” Day closed down the Class Act Group Dec. 31. The
group, operating from Fort Walton Beach, Fla., had fought
for years, both in federal court and in Congress to restore
free lifetime health care to older military retirees and
their spouses who had been promised it. Day says that full
free health care has not been achieved because the retiree
group affected are paying Medicare Part B premiums,
although retirees now have 95 percent of what they were
promised. A key portion of it is furnished by Tricare for
Life and Tricare Senior Pharmacy benefits. Day said that
factors in the decision included a need to make
congressional money available to hurricane victims, and
less interest by the retirees involved and Congress.
