The Tricare health program, the Pentagon-issued insurance for veterans and active-duty personnel, may soon cover autism therapy for children of retirees.
Republican Representative Jeff Miller of Florida has proposed the Military Family Autism Equality Act, which would allow veterans the same access to autism care as active-duty service members. This would provide "up to $2,500 per month for training, rehabilitation, special education, institutional care and sometimes transportation." Legislators and advocates hope that the act will help take the sting out of costly therapies that, thanks to low Medicaid reimbursements, ex-military families must often pay for out-of-pocket.
You can read more about the proposal in the Army Times.
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To clarify - this benefit is proposed for retirees - not all veterans and this bill,introduced in April 2009, only has one co-sponsor.
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