Re: Fiscal Year 2013 Department of the Navy Budget Submission
Add this to the bullets:
"For TRICARE Prime, fees would increase from $520 per year for family coverage to $850 in 2016 in the lowest pay tier, which includes retirees who earn less than $22,589 per year in retired pay. The fees would be much steeper for those with larger pensions. In the highest tier, made up of retirees who earn more than $45,179, the annual fee would rise to $1,950."
"After 2016, health care increases would be tied directly to the actual increases in national health care spending, and in that respect, the DoD proposal differs significantly from current law. In this year's Defense authorization bill, Congress let DoD increase fees on working age retirees for the first time since it created TRICARE in the mid-1990s. And while future increases are allowed, they are tied to retiree's annual cost of living adjustments rather than actual health care inflation. "
Re: Fiscal Year 2013 Department of the Navy Budget Submission
Jim Donovan
• Decreased the deployable battle forces to 284 ships in FY13, including 11 aircraft carriers and 31 large amphibious ships, 4 guided-missile submarines and 55 nuclear powered attack submarines. Force structure changes will result in a Navy fleet size of more than 280 ships by the end of the FYDP.
Wow, far cry from the 600-ship Navy of the Reagan years (see link)!
