"...The Supreme Court’s decision Thursday upholding the Affordable Care Act has little impact on Tricare beneficiaries, who will see no change to their benefits.
The ruling, which upholds the individual mandate under the government’s right to tax, will have no impact on Tricare customers because the program not only was omitted from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, it later was protected under separate legislation...
The Affordable Care Act also includes a special enrollment window for Medicare Part B that applied to older military retirees enrolled in Tricare for Life; the law waives a late enrollment penalty — 10 percent for each 12-month period in which a beneficiary could have enrolled in Part B but didn’t — for military retirees, spouses, dependent children and survivors..."
The ruling, which upholds the individual mandate under the government’s right to tax, will have no impact on Tricare customers because the program not only was omitted from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, it later was protected under separate legislation...
The Affordable Care Act also includes a special enrollment window for Medicare Part B that applied to older military retirees enrolled in Tricare for Life; the law waives a late enrollment penalty — 10 percent for each 12-month period in which a beneficiary could have enrolled in Part B but didn’t — for military retirees, spouses, dependent children and survivors..."