https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/tricare-and-the-affordable-care-act-good-information <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>The <a href="http://www.hhs.gov/healthcare/facts/timeline/index.html" target="_blank" style="border:0px;line-height:1;font-family:'Lucida Grande' , Helvetica , Arial , sans-serif;text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(17, 76, 149);">Affordable Care Act</a>, also known as the health care reform law, requires you to maintain basic health care coverage—called <a href="http://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/minimum-essential-coverage" target="_blank" style="border:0px;line-height:1;font-family:'Lucida Grande' , Helvetica , Arial , sans-serif;text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(17, 76, 149);">minimum essential coverage</a>. Beginning in 2014, if you don't have minimum essential coverage, you'll have to pay a <a href="https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/fee/" target="_blank" style="border:0px;line-height:1;font-family:'Lucida Grande' , Helvetica , Arial , sans-serif;text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(17, 76, 149);">fee</a> for each month you aren’t covered.<div><br></div><div>Plans that are Minimum Essential Coverage<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:1.5em;border:0px;line-height:19.5px;font-family:'Lucida Grande' , Helvetica , Arial , sans-serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);">If you’re using any of the following health plans, you have the minimum essental coverage required by the health care reform law. Unless you’re considering other health coverage, you don’t need to take any action at this time.</p>TRICARE PrimeTRICARE Prime RemoteTRICARE Prime OverseasTRICARE Prime Remote OverseasTRICARE Standard and ExtraTRICARE Standard OverseasTRICARE For LifeTRICARE Reserve Select (if purchased)TRICARE Retired Reserve (if purchased)TRICARE Young Adult (if purchased)US Family Health Plan</div> Mon, 25 Nov 2013 23:39:42 -0500 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/tricare-and-the-affordable-care-act-good-information <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>The <a href="http://www.hhs.gov/healthcare/facts/timeline/index.html" target="_blank" style="border:0px;line-height:1;font-family:'Lucida Grande' , Helvetica , Arial , sans-serif;text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(17, 76, 149);">Affordable Care Act</a>, also known as the health care reform law, requires you to maintain basic health care coverage—called <a href="http://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/minimum-essential-coverage" target="_blank" style="border:0px;line-height:1;font-family:'Lucida Grande' , Helvetica , Arial , sans-serif;text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(17, 76, 149);">minimum essential coverage</a>. Beginning in 2014, if you don't have minimum essential coverage, you'll have to pay a <a href="https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/fee/" target="_blank" style="border:0px;line-height:1;font-family:'Lucida Grande' , Helvetica , Arial , sans-serif;text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(17, 76, 149);">fee</a> for each month you aren’t covered.<div><br></div><div>Plans that are Minimum Essential Coverage<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:1.5em;border:0px;line-height:19.5px;font-family:'Lucida Grande' , Helvetica , Arial , sans-serif;color:rgb(0, 0, 0);">If you’re using any of the following health plans, you have the minimum essental coverage required by the health care reform law. Unless you’re considering other health coverage, you don’t need to take any action at this time.</p>TRICARE PrimeTRICARE Prime RemoteTRICARE Prime OverseasTRICARE Prime Remote OverseasTRICARE Standard and ExtraTRICARE Standard OverseasTRICARE For LifeTRICARE Reserve Select (if purchased)TRICARE Retired Reserve (if purchased)TRICARE Young Adult (if purchased)US Family Health Plan</div> SGM Matthew Quick Mon, 25 Nov 2013 23:39:42 -0500 2013-11-25T23:39:42-05:00 https://www.rallypoint.com/answers/tricare-and-the-affordable-care-act-good-information?n=19903&urlhash=19903 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>MSG, thanks for the information, as usual you are on top of things for all of us. SFC James Baber Thu, 12 Dec 2013 22:49:22 -0500 2013-12-12T22:49:22-05:00 2013-11-25T23:39:42-05:00