Advocacy
Ask Your Lawmakers to Back Expanded TRICARE Access for ‘Gray Area’ Retirees
These National Guard and Reserve retirees get retirement pay, but they can’t access the full health care benefit they’ve earned.
As MOAA’s Director of Government Relations for Health Affairs, Karen Ruedisueli advocates for legislation and policy to protect the uniformed services health care benefit, including TRICARE and the direct care system of military hospitals and clinics. She builds relationships on Capitol Hill and with DoD leaders, TRICARE contractors, and fellow advocates to advance solutions to Military Health System issues and ensure transparency and accountability in policy implementation. She also advises MOAA’s Health Care Board Committee.
These National Guard and Reserve retirees get retirement pay, but they can’t access the full health care benefit they’ve earned.
Get the new costs, and find out what MOAA is doing to protect your health care benefit.
Read the latest in MOAA’s work to secure this earned benefit, and get health care-related details from the DoD budget request.
Thousands of brick-and-mortar locations have left the network. Ask your lawmakers to restore your earned health benefit.
Learn more about the new assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, including how his priorities align with MOAA’s.
Here’s how you can join MOAA’s fight to bring TRICARE in line with commercial plans.