"...The Obama administration’s proposal for a means-based system for setting military retiree health care fees draws heavily on recommendations from a 2007 task force on military health care adjusted for gross retirement pay.
Proposed enrollment fee hikes for Tricare Prime and a new fee for Tricare for Life would be prorated for retirees based on pretax military retirement income. Under the plan, the fees would rise on a fixed schedule each year until 2016, when they will begin to rise according to a medical inflation index..."
Proposed enrollment fee hikes for Tricare Prime and a new fee for Tricare for Life would be prorated for retirees based on pretax military retirement income. Under the plan, the fees would rise on a fixed schedule each year until 2016, when they will begin to rise according to a medical inflation index..."