I’ve read the thread, the “commentary” that thread is sourced from and cannot find any mention of TriCare. Can you please provide a link that details the TriCare cuts?
TriCare is a DoD entitlement and I did not see any mention of the DoD in any of the comments or source material either.
Thanks,
SZ
It is a DOD thing, the pdf with the link from the economist blog has it. Even Scott Brown mentioned the Tricare situation.
TRI CARE FOR LIFE This from a google search:
This option would help reduce the costs of TFL, as well as costs for Medicare, by introducing minimum out-of pocket requirements for beneficiaries. Under this option, TFL would not cover any of the first $525 of an enrollee’s cost-sharing liabilities for calendar year 2011 and would limit coverage to 50 percent of the next $4,725 in Medicare cost sharing that the beneficiary incurred. (Because all further cost sharing would be covered by TFL, enrollees could not pay more than $2,888 in cost sharing in that year.)
http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9925/12-18-HealthOptions.pdf
The latest budget proposal from the Congressional Budget Office (see page 175) seems to be trying to save a relative few pennies at the expense of military veterans. TRICARE for Life (TFL) is a program that was created in 2002 that supplements Medicare for military retirees and their families. “Option 96” on page 175 of the Health Care version of the latest budget proposal would make a significant modification to TFL.