Posted on 04/27/2016 8:16:08 AM PDT by BulletBobCo
Many Tricare users would face annual enrollment fees in a newly named plan under a draft proposal released Monday by the House Armed Services Committee.
Under the plan, current users of Tricare Standard and Tricare Extra would fall into the newly minted Tricare Preferred plan. Users would continue to be permitted to self-refer to providers, but doing so would come with an annual enrollment fee of $100 for individuals and $200 for families starting in 2020.
New Tricare users would pay even greater fees. Active-duty family members would pay $300 for an individual or $600 for families to enroll each year, while future retirees who joined the service after 2020 would pay $425 for an individual or $850 for families.
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I guess the best option for our veterans will be to claim they are newly landed Cubans so the government will give the entire family free health care.
The constant screwing with veterans and the military is never ending, making sure there is free stuff available to worthy illegals.
They need to make cuts elsewhere and not mess with the vets.
More crap sandwich for our veterans and their families! It is not possible for me to despise Congressional creeps more than I already do.
Plenty of money for free health care for illegals and muslim refugees though...
que pasa?
If this passes that will be a huge and devastating cost to the Active Duty families.
Many of my young airmen were already on food stamps and my wife and I spent a lot of our time helping them get basic things for their children. We became good friends with the wonderful folks at the base Food Pantry and they would respond to us even at night, helping my airmen get diapers and baby food when they were broke, which was the day after payday when they finished paying their bills.
How do the politicians think the lower ranks will pay for the medical care that was once promised to them? Since the vile and detestable politicians have given themselves the best medical care and have exempted themselves from Obamacare they do not care about the people who have pledged their lives to protect and fight for our Country.
New names and games to protect the vet. I have Tricare for life and Tricare prime, been retired for over 20 years. I have never received any statement from TFL and prime about how much they paid for my medical care.
Don’t get me wrong here fellow Freepers as I am not complaining about my health care either from the VA for service connected disability issues, or Medicare/Tricare for life for routine medical care. However, when I raised my right hand in 1967 and told the US Army I would give them 20 years (I retired with almost 30 by the way) they said they would provide free health care for the rest of my life. That promise (Contract) didn’t work out so well for me and the rest of us Veterans did it?
Because no welfare mama in the hood on her obamaphone has a higher since of entitlement than a veteran. The veteran's motto - 'free healthcare for life for me, but no socialized medicine for anyone else'
How many were draftees, and how many volunteered for Mr. Obama's rainbow military?
Tricare ends when you become eligible for Medicare. Tricare for life then kicks in as the secondary payer serving as the Part D portion of Medicare.
You can't have both Tricare prime and Tricare for life at the same time.
My father was career Navy, somehow he had enough juice to stay with navy docs almost to the end at age 92!
My mother went on Tricare.
Around age 90 they told him he was too old for a hip repair, that pissed him off.
He was bound and determined to get the most out of the Navy.
And in the end, they returned him to the Pacific.
FOR FREE.
“You can’t have both Tricare prime and Tricare for life at the same time.”
I’m under 65, I pay about $300 per year for Prime. I thought TFL, was what the retirees got. So are you saying if you are under 65 and have Prime, you don’t have Tricare also?
Excuse me! Are you comparing the people that wear the uniform to welfare people? Perhaps I read your post wrong.
Here’s how it worked for me and my wife:
When I enlisted in 1959, I was told that my medical needs would be covered by the military for the rest of my life if I stayed in for at least 20 years. I retired in 1989 after 30 years service, and the wife and I had Champus then Tricare Prime at a cost of about $200 a month and we saw doctors on nearby military installations for our medical needs.
When we turned 65, we were told we no longer qualified for Tricare Prime, we could no longer use military installation medical facilities, and would have to sign up for Medicare Part A and Part B to qualify for Tricare for Life. Medicare Part B costs us $6,000 a year and we had to find a local civilian doctor who would accept Tricare Prime and Medicare.
There was a law suite several years ago in an attempt to force the U.S. Military to honor their promise of lifetime medical coverage if we made a career of the military, and the finding was that the Recruiting Command had no authority to make that promise; only Congress could make a promise like that, and they didn’t.
If you have Tricare Prime and are under 65, you don’t have TFL, you don’t really need it. Retirees receive Tricare coverage until you reach 65. At that point, your Tricare goes away and you must enroll in Medicare (both Part A and Part B) The you will need that TFL for prescriptions and other expenses that won’t be covered by Medicare.
The term Tricare for Life is political propaganda, it’s just a bone that the government throw our way when they pulled the rug on Tricare - it’s a supplement nothing more.
My dd214 granted me free care for life. I’m now ineligible because they mean tested me. Promises kept!
Thanks for the info, I have a couple more years before I reach 65. My employer picks up a Medicare PPO plan at 65.
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