Under the Senate bill, 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.)
So that brings it up to around $10K/year for wife and me from what used to be zero for all those who served their full retirement or were 30% or more disabled upon service connected retirement discharge.
Those who gave their all have just been tossed in the trash can.
Thank you for spelling out the REAL impact this will have on those who serve, who have served, and their families.