mickeyd
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If you are covered by Tricare this may be of interest to you and yours. Looks to me like we may not be looking at an increase in what we are required to fork over each month. What follows is from a recent MOAA email.
In its April draft of the FY2013 Defense Authorization Bill (H.R. 4310), the House Armed Services Military Personnel Subcommittee was silent on the TRICARE fee issue, other than including MOAA-supported language expressing Congress' view that career military people pre-pay huge premiums for their healthcare through decades of service and sacrifice.
If the final defense bill sustains that silence, it would block DoD from implementing most of the large TRICARE fee increases proposed in the defense budget.
The big exception would be the pharmacy copay proposals (see the bottom of this chart), which don't require a law change to implement. All of the other proposals for TRICARE For Life, TRICARE Prime and TRICARE Standard would require new legislation.