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Health Care in the NDAA: Some Wins for Military Families
Find provisions that will improve health care coverage and access for expectant parents, new moms, and families struggling with mental health challenges.
Find provisions that will improve health care coverage and access for expectant parents, new moms, and families struggling with mental health challenges.
The NDAA will enact a few new child care programs, projects, and reports that should, albeit slowly, improve the military child care system.
TRICARE, the military health insurance, should be on par or better than coverage available through commercial plans, but it is now.
Congress has taken a huge step to address food insecurity among military families in the annual defense bill.
Congress passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2021, which did not include the proposed Military Family Basic Needs Allowance.
Military families have plenty of good news in the FY21 National Defense Authorization Act, although the Basic Needs Allowance wasn’t included.