Analysis of Approaches to Reduce Federal Spending on Military Health Care

Abstract

Contents include: What Are Some Current Proposals for Cost Savings?; Recent Proposals to Restructure TRICARE; Slowing the Growth of Health Care Costs; Cumulative Budgetary Effects of Policy Options That Would Raise Military Retirees Cost Sharing, 2015 to 2023; Potential for Savings in Other Approaches; What Is CBO's Approach to Estimating the Effects of Legislation?; Budgetary Effects of Increasing Medical Cost Sharing for Military Retirees Who Are Not Yet Eligible for Medicare; What Would Be CBO's Approach to Estimating the Cost of a Proposal for Restructuring TRICARE?

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2015
Accession Number
AD1134484

Entities

People

  • Carla T. Murray

Organizations

  • Congressional Budget Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Active Duty
  • Budgets
  • Business Administration
  • Cost Estimates
  • Costs
  • Discretionary Spending
  • Federal Budgets
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Law
  • Medicare
  • Military Medicine
  • National Security
  • Taxes

Fields of Study

  • Medicine
  • Political science

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Medical or Health Care Field.