I 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1092 
To amend title 10, United States Code, to prohibit certain increases in 
fees for military health care. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 15, 2011 
Mr. JONES (for himself and Mr. BOREN) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Armed Services 
A BILL 
To amend title 10, United States Code, to prohibit certain 
increases in fees for military health care. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Military Retirees 
Health Care Protection Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) Career uniformed service members and their 
families endure unique and extraordinary demands 
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and sacrifices during the course of a decades-long 
career protecting freedoms for all Americans. 
(2) The extent of these demands and sacrifices 
is never so evident as in wartime, not only in today’s 
Global War on Terrorism, but also during the last 
6 decades of hot and cold wars when today’s retired 
service members were on continuous call to enter 
into harm’s way when and as needed. 
(3) The demands and sacrifices are such that 
few Americans are willing to accept them for a 
multi-decade career. 
(4) The primary offset for enduring the ex-
traordinary sacrifices inherent in a military career is 
a system of extraordinary retirement benefits, in-
cluding health care coverage considerably better than 
that afforded civilian workers, that a grateful Nation 
provides for those who choose to subordinate much 
of their personal life to the national interest for so 
many years. 
(5) Many private sector firms are curtailing 
health benefits and shifting significantly higher costs 
to their employees. 
(6) One effect of such curtailment is that re-
tired service members who work for such employers 
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increasingly depend on the TRICARE coverage they 
earned by their military service. 
(7) While the Department of Defense has made 
some efforts to constrain TRICARE program costs, 
a large part of the Department’s effort has been 
aimed at shifting a larger share of cost burdens to 
retired service members. 
(8) The beneficiary cost increases proposed by 
the Department of Defense fail to recognize ade-
quately that career service members paid enormous 
in-kind premiums through their extended service and 
sacrifice. 
(9) A significant share of the Nation’s health 
care providers refuse to accept new TRICARE pa-
tients because TRICARE pays them significantly 
less than commercial insurance programs and im-
poses unique administrative requirements. 
(10) The Department of Defense has chosen to 
count the accrual deposit to the Department of De-
fense Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health Care Fund 
against the budget of the Department of Defense, 
contrary to the amendments made by section 725 of 
Public Law 108–375. 
(11) Leaders of the Department of Defense 
have reported to Congress that counting such depos-
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