Defense Secretary Robert Gates launched into an assessment of the military’s health care system, TRICARE, calling it a constant source of complaints from troops and badly in need of financial reform in the face of rapidly increasing cost estimates to the federal government. Health care cost the department $19 billion in 2000, but is estimated to reach $50 billion in fiscal 2011 and $65 billion by 2015, according to Gates. TRICARE has not increased premiums since its creation in 1996. Gates suggested possibly charging higher premiums and co-pay fees to those retired personnel using the system who have access to private health care plans through their employers. To read this article in its entirety, please click here: http://www.military.com/news/article/gates-gives-brutal-assessment-of-tricare.html?ESRC=eb.nl
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And seriously… Just because a government underwritten insurance program is innefficient at providing cost effective care for a pool of healthy insured males averaging 27 (i’m guessing) years old and who are actually removed from service for being unhealthy… Thats no reason to believe the federal government isn’t totally capable of overseeing the entire market.