Karen Ruedisueli: Good morning. Nice to be on with you today.
Tom Temin: And you’re also speaking on behalf of the coalition itself, correct?
Karen Ruedisueli: I am, yes, together with Eileen Huck from the National Military Family Association. I co-chair TMC’s health care committee, and we developed the flutter that went to Secretary of Defense Austin.
Tom Temin: Alright. And the top issue in that letter is increases in TRICARE fees that have occurred after several years of congressional and bureaucratic reorganizations of the whole military health care system itself. Tell us basically what’s going on and what the effects have been on people that are covered by the Military Health System.
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119,000 Retired Military Beneficiaries Still Haven t Set Up Payment Plans for Tricare Select
Commander, Navy Region Mid-Atlantic holds the annual Retiree Summit and Career Fair at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story, November 1, 2019. (U.S. Navy/Spencer Layne)
16 Mar 2021
Military family advocates are worried that some beneficiaries dropped from the Defense Department s Tricare Select health program in January won t know they don t have health coverage until they go see a doctor.
These beneficiaries working-age military retirees and their family members who were enrolled in the Tricare Select health program last year failed to set up payment plans for enrollment fees introduced Jan. 1, leaving them without access to comprehensive health care coverage under Tricare.
Tricare Users Frustrated by Lack of Information on COVID-19 Vaccine Availability
Kesha Ladd, Fort Campbell High School teacher, foreground, receives a COVID-19 vaccination, Feb. 12, from Patsey Simmons, licensed practical nurse, while Kimberly Butts, FCHS guidance counselor, reviews information with Sgt. Tametra Jalomo, medic assigned to Blanchfield Army Community Hospital. (Ethan Steinquest/U.S. Army)
19 Feb 2021
In El Paso, Texas, Fort Bliss officials have set up a second COVID-19 vaccination site for military personnel and eligible Tricare beneficiaries, including those age 65 and older, and those 16 to 64 with underlying health conditions.
But at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Virginia, retirees over age 75 who received their first COVID-19 vaccine in mid-January have not been able to get their second dose within the recommended time frame due to lack of availability.