TRICARE Fee Increases Recommended

Week of December 24, 2007

The final report of the Pentagon-appointed Task Force on the Future of Military Health will call for a new "modest" enrollment fee for 1.9 million elderly military beneficiaries who use their TRICARE for Life medical benefits. In addition addition, the report will call for higher TRICARE fees, deductibles and co-payments for three 3 million younger retirees and their families. In an interim report last May, the task force said Congress should restore the relative cost share that retirees under age 65 paid when TRICARE began more in the mid-1990s.   TRICARE fees, deductibles and co-pays have not changed since then. Defense officials have tried twice to raise fees on younger retirees but Congress blocked the plan this year and in 2006.

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