U.S. military has new threat: health care costs
Already soaring health care and pension costs will keep growing, much to the detriment of the U.S. military, NPR reports.
In the past decade, military health care costs more than doubled, and now accounts for $52.5 billion in next year's proposed budget, NPR reports. Retirees' pay costs another roughly $50 billion.
Gates has proposed raising Tricare fees, particularly for working-age retirees, and is considering replacing the all-or-nothing, 20-year retirement plan with a more “flexible” system.
Read more about rising military health care costs by NPR.
