New Tricare fees, end to combat pay 'windfall' voted

Makes perfect sense to me since these same folks wanted to make sure corporations kept tax cuts, when we got job cuts and cut backs but we also need to remember when it came to wars, they voted for them but never thought about paying for them before, durning and especially after.

Military Update: New Tricare fees, end to combat pay 'windfall' voted
By TOM PHILPOTT
Special to Stars and Stripes
Published: June 23, 2011
The Senate Armed Services Committee has agreed with House colleagues to approve a small increase in Tricare Prime enrollment fees for working-age retirees, and to allow these fees to be raised annually by the percentage cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) applied to military retired pay.

The vote ensures that Tricare Prime enrollment fees for individual retirees under age 65 will be raised in the new fiscal year by $30, to $260 a year, and that retiree family coverage will climb by $60, to $520. These will be the first fee increases since Tricare rates were set in 1995.

The Senate panel also joined with the House to endorse an Obama administration plan to restructure Tricare pharmacy co-payments to encourage use of mail order for refills instead of having local drugstores, at far greater cost to the government, refill prescriptions for chronic conditions.
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New Tricare fees, end to combat pay 'windfall' voted