Health Care Issues

• Avert a 24% Medicare/TRICARE payment cut and fix the statutory formula to improve care access
• Oppose means testing of TRICARE Prime and TRICARE for Life enrollment fees
• Block the consolidation of TRICARE health plans into a single plan providing less choice
• Improve seamless transition and protect Defense and VA health budgets/programs and benefits
• Authorize the option to retain operational reservists’ civilian family health insurance upon call-up
• Increase orthodontia payment cap under active duty plan
• Authorize TRICARE coverage for Applied Behavioral Analysis for active and retired members  

Retirement/Survivor Issues

• Evaluate Military Compensation & Retirement Modernization Commission recommendations; February 2015
• Oppose military benefit changes that are inconsistent with service career sacrifices
• Preserve full-inflation cost of living adjustments (COLAs)
• End the deduction of VA disability compensation from military retired pay
• End deduction of VA Dependency & Indemnification Compensation from Survivor Benefit Plan annuities
• Implement a more equitable military disability retirement system
• Restore VA Dependency & Indemnification Compensation for spouses who remarry after age 55
• Reform the Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) calculation for reservists who die performing Inactive Duty Training
• Authorize survivors to retain a deceased retiree’s full final month retired pay
• Reform the Uniform Services Former Spouse Protection Act (USFSPA)

Veterans / Other Issues

• Eliminate VA claims backlog and improve quality, efficiency and transparency of claims processing
• Improve VA healthcare services and access for women veterans
• Extend caregiver services and support to qualifying disabled veterans of all conflicts
• Authorize pre-tax payment of health, dental, and long-term health care premiums
• Prevent disproportional Social Security and Medicare penalties for any population segment

[Source:  MOAA Leg Up Jan. 09, 2015]