SFC Ollie
Still Marching
everyone, retirees and the working Joe, in the private sector are faced with the same broken promises and rises in their health care costs...everyone has to give a little Ollie...And it seems Mr Obama isn't happy with his Obama care making health insurance go up for most. He also has to make sure that the Military retiree pays more too. (Remember when we were promised free healthcare as part of our service contract?)
The same week TRICARE announced their new TRICARE Prime enroll*ment fees, the admin*is*tra*tion pro*posed a brand new $200 annual fee for TRICARE for Life (the Medicare sup*ple*ment for mil*i*tary retirees and their depen*dents who are older than 65). If adopted, this new enroll*ment fee would be charged begin*ning in 2013, and it would grad*u*ally increase. Accord*ing to the White House the pro*posal would save $6.7 bil*lion over 10 years.
The White House also pro*posed a new TRICARE pre*scrip*tion med*ica*tion co-pay struc*ture. Under the plan retirees would see co-pays rise based a per*cent*age for*mula tied to gov*ern*ment costs. Accord*ing to a report by Tom Philpott, generic drugs at retail would be set at 10 per*cent of the Defense Departments cost for the med*i*cine and this would climb to 20 per*cent after 2013. Co-pays for brand names would start at 15 per*cent of cost and be raised to 30 per*cent over an as yet unspec*i*fied period.
Read more: http://militaryadvantage.military.com/2011/10/more-tricare-fee-increases-proposed/#ixzz1ZovtW6NI
MilitaryAdvantage.Military.com
Yes I'll be writing to my congressman and senators and the White House again...............
I hate it as much as you do, but i am not as certain as you are, that government and military employees should not be faced with what we all face in the real world of health care in the USA.
Be thankful that you still have Tricare to pay the 20% that Medicare does not pay....
And none of it is what we were promised. My out of pocket healthcare for last year was nearly $5000. That is a long way from giving up a little. Remember we are the ones on a fixed income, and they want to take more and more of that every year........