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  • Military Update: 2.4 million veterans may face $230 annual health-care enrollment fee

    03/02/2005 4:54:46 PM PST · by Former Military Chick · 28 replies · 743+ views
    Special to Stars and Stripes ^ | March 3, 2005 | Tom Philpott
    Republican majorities on the House and Senate veterans’ affairs committees have voted to impose an enrollment fee of at least $230 a year on 2.4 million veterans — one of every three now eligible to use VA health care. Those targeted are in priority categories 7 and 8, meaning they are neither poor nor suffering from service-connected disabilities. Half of the 2.4 million used the VA health system last year. The Bush administration proposed the enrollment fee to hold down costs. The VA committees rejected another Bush proposal to raise co-payments on VA-filled prescriptions for these same Priority 7 and...