Military Medical Care: Questions and Answers

Jansen, Don J. ; Blakeley, Katherine

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

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

RP-ID  :  RL33537
RP-ID  :  RL33537_2013Jan07

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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.