TRI CARE FOR LIFE This from a google search:
http://economicspolitics.blogspot.com/2009/05/tricare-for-life-is-obama-trying-to.html
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 enrollees 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
http://www.vawatchdog.org/09/hcva09/hcva110609-1.htm
Bill Would Restrict Veterans Health Care Options 11/06/09
Buyer and McKeon Offer Amendments to Protect Veterans and TRICARE Beneficiaries
Congress plans to block Tricare fee increases
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2009/10/military_tricarefees_blocked_100709w
By Rick Maze - Staff writer, Oct 7, 2009
Tricare fee increases imposed last week by the Defense Department will be repealed by a provision of the compromise 2010 defense authorization bill unveiled Wednesday by House and Senate negotiators.
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The fee increases were announced on Sept. 30 and took effect on Oct. 1, but the defense bill, HR 2647, includes a provision barring any fee increases until the start of fiscal 2011.
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Retired Army Maj. Gen. Bill Matz, president of the National Association for Uniformed Services, said the announcement of fee increases was shocking considering that the Obama administration promised earlier this year to hold off on any new fee Tricare fee increases until fiscal 2011.
President Obama and DoD assured NAUS and the entire military family earlier this year that there would rightly be no increases in any Tricare fees in fiscal 2010, Matz said. We took them at their word, and I cant believe that a co-pay increase like this was allowed to go forward, he added.
Bambi doesn't keep his promises...so buyer beware.
Report: Dems near deal on ObamaCare before health-care summit?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2453511/posts
How to Fix Health Care - Lasik surgery for the medical debate (private sector = reduced costs)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2453320/posts
A Roadmap for killing Social Security (Los Angeles Times Critiques Paul Ryan's Roadmap)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2453338/posts
Video Explains Why Pain Meds Are Popular
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2453404/posts
NHS hospitals ignore patient safety orders
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2452845/posts
Quebec Doctors Want their Euthanasia Practices Acknowledged, Legalized
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2452846/posts
Key Senate Democrats push for health care public option (Evil Never Rests)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2452880/posts
Congress Will Implement "Trick" to Pass Health Care Reform
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2453144/posts
Just Say No to the Health-Care Summit
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2453152/posts
Millions Skip Test for Colon Cancer
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2452646/posts
Republican holds out hope on health care overhaul (Don't shoot the messenger)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2454430/posts
· · FDA urges safety curbs to decrease use of 4 popular asthma drugs, citing lifethreatening risk
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2454335/posts
An ObamaCare Opponent Offers Her Own Plan
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2454295/posts
White House: Dems near accord on health care bill
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2454265/posts
White House: Dems near accord on health care bill
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2454263/posts
Health Insurance Providers Push For Huge Premium Increases: Why Now? Is Health Care Reform Fix In?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2454078/posts