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Obama plan calls for new Tricare fee hikes
By Rick Maze - Staff writer
Posted : Monday Sep 19, 2011 12:48:01 EDT



http://www.navytimes.com/news/2011/09/military-tricare-benefits-cuts-obama-091911w/

President Obama’s $4.4 trillion deficit-reduction plan proposes additional increases in Tricare pharmacy co-pays for military beneficiaries and would begin charging an enrollment fee for older retirees using Tricare for Life health benefits.

But the plan postpones any fundamental changes in military retired pay until yet another commission studies the issue.

A White House statement says the current 20-year military retirement system is outdated and needs an overhaul, but it pledges that any change should not apply to those already retired or currently serving.

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Of course we know most of this was caused by failed Bush policies and loopholes along with GOP Tea Party cuts but they are blaming it squarely on the Obama Administration.