TRICARE

[Santo Tomas]

Anyone on here use TRICARE besides myself? Read below and call your senator. It's hard to believe McCain, a former POW, is doing this. Guess he buckled to the political pressure. But when you have lots and lots of money why should he care.

Oppose McCain TRICARE Fee Hike

The Senate is expected to finish action on the FY2012 Defense Authorization Act (S. 1867) this week.
One of the amendments to be considered soon is a proposal by Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) to significantly increase TRICARE Prime enrollment fees over time.
Previously, the full House of Representatives and the Senate Armed Services Committee approved language to specify the percentage increase in Prime fees can't exceed the retired pay COLA percentage in any year.
The McCain amendment would eliminate the COLA cap and let the Pentagon hike fees by some unspecified index of health cost growth (estimated by DoD at 6.5% per year).
Over time, the McCain amendment would increase fees by hundreds of dollars a year.
Time is short, and we need phone calls to fight this inappropriate fee hike.
Please use MOAA's toll-free Capitol Hill Hotline (1-866-272-6622) and ask the Capitol operator to put you through to your senators' offices (to identify your senators, go to http://capwiz.com/moaa/dbq/officials/ and click on your state).
Please give this short message to the staffer who answers the phone:
"I'm a constituent, and I want my senator to OPPOSE Sen. McCain's defense bill amendment #1230 that would impose further increases in military TRICARE fees."
If you get a busy signal, please try again in a few minutes.

[Mortarman11c]

I use Tricare Reserve Select......$270.00 a month for a family of four.

[Santo Tomas]

Mine is $315 a quarter for the four of us. But McCain is going to hose us all.

[SOWT]

Mine is $315 a quarter for the four of us. But McCain is going to hose us all.

You can't begin to imagine (or maybe you can).
I am in TC Prime, and will get booted if this goes through; that means the odds of me getting an appointment at Randolph or BAMC are ZERO.
TriCare pays Medicare/MedicAid rates. Docs in TX (and elsewhere I assume) are bailing out of MediCare/Aid left and right; so I pay $3500/year and get ZERO care.
Current system allows TriCare to be used as a second payer, McC's plan eliminates that, so buying insurance via my wife's employeer means I pay $7K/year, and I still get stuck with co-pays.
There is no opt-out provision.
I talked to my wife about joining/filing suit if it passes, and she thinks we should join/file if we have too.