Analysis of an Alternative Military Healthcare Benefit Design

Sarah K. Burns, Philip M. Lurie and John E. Whitley

Defence and Peace Economics, 2018, vol. 29, issue 1, 6-23

Abstract: The Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission was established by the Congress in 2013 to perform a systematic review of military compensation to address rising costs and other trends. Their recommendation for reforming the TRICARE health care program was sweeping, and differed greatly from earlier proposals that focused on increasing beneficiary cost shares. Specifically, the commission proposed overhauling the current benefit delivery model and replacing it with a premium-based insurance model offering a menu of DoD-sponsored private health plans. The analysis presented here is based on work that supported the commission by estimating the budgetary impact of its proposed reforms. Results indicate that movement towards the premium-based model would produce an annual budgetary cost savings in the $2 billion to $4 billion range, with a best savings estimate of $3.2 billion.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/10242694.2017.1349302

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