TRICARE Co-Pays Likely to Increase Under the proposed 2012 budget, TRICARE prescriptions filled on base will remain free, but, co-pays for medications purchased...
New Report Targets Retiree TRICARE Like previous deficit-busting reports, the Center for American Progress’s recommendations would not change health care...
Balance the Budget on Vet's Backs? Recent proposals for balancing the Federal budget and reducing the deficit have included plans to reduce veterans benefits...
TRICARE Young Adult Premium Rates DoD will release the the TRICARE Young Adult premium rates today. How much are you willing to pay for TRICARE coverage up to...
DoD Asks for TRICARE Premium Increases According to George Taylor, acting principal deputy assistant secretary for health affairs for the Defense Department, the...
House Plan Would Block TRICARE Increase The House of Representatives 2012 defense budget proposal includes provisions which would once more protect military retirees...
House Committee Okays TRICARE Hike The House Armed Services Committee endorsed key portions of the Obama administration's plan to begin to raise out-of-pocket...
Gates Puts Pay Cuts on the Table Secretary Robert Gates has long avoided asking for a reduction in military pay and active duty benefits, but pressure to make...
2012 Military Pay and Benefits Update The House passed the FY2012 Defense Authorization Bill (H.R. 1540) earlier this week. As expected the final version of the...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...