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Transcript: DOD APPROVES EXPANDED HEALTH COVERAGE FOR RESERVE FAMILY MEMBERS
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- March 13, 2003
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WASHINGTON, March 13, 2003 -- Two major changes effective immediately
will make it easier for reserve component family members to receive
health
care coverage from the Defense Department when their sponsor is activated,
the department's top doc said.
The first change shortens the time reservists and Guardsmen must
be
activated -- from 179 to 30 days -- for their family members to be
eligible
for enrollment in TRICARE Prime, the military's most comprehensive
health
care option.
Dr. William Winkenwerder, assistant secretary of defense for
health
affairs, said department officials were "pleased and delighted" to
make
the changes.
"We realize ...