Military Medical Care: Questions and Answers

Best, Richard A., Jr.

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

关键词: Defense policy;    Health policy;    Medicare;    Medicine;    Military medicine;   

RP-ID  :  RL33537
RP-ID  :  RL33537_2008May20

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

This report answers several frequently asked questions about military health care, including: how the system is structured, a TRICARE summary, TRICARE eligibility and plan options, cost of military health care to beneficiaries, relationship of TRICARE to MEDICARE, how the Affordable Care Act affects TRICARE, long-term trends of defense health care costs, and a summary of the fund which funds TRICARE - the Medicare Eligible Retiree Health Care fund.