NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR UNIFORMED SERVICES for NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR UNIFORMED SERVICES
What was lobbied
6 issue areas, each in the filer's own words, with who lobbied on it and where.
Defense DEF
Provide insight into the Military Health Care System; military retiree pay and benefits; Cost of Living Adjustments; Morale Welfare and Recreation (MWR) issues; Survivor Benefit Plan; Defense Authorization and Appropriations Bills; equipment issues; Commissary and Exchange issues; change to the Uniformed Services Former Spouse Protection Act (USFSPA) to terminate payments when formers spouses remarry and other changes to make the USFSPA more equitable for all involved parties. Fight proposals to increase TRICARE enrollment fees and prescription copays. Urge DoD to find fraud, waste and abuse in all areas of operations before increasing health care costs for retirees and survivors.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| RICHARD A JONES | — |
| MICHAEL W PLUMER | — |
Retirement RET
To protect the cost of living adjusted Social Security payments by ensuring that any major changes made would grandfather retirees and those near retirement; to improve the Medicare benefit and provide adequate reimbursement rates to health care professionals; establish a Consumer Price Index for Elderly (CPI-E) to compute cost of living increases for Social Security and other Medicare beneficiaries; phase out the taxation of Social Security Benefits; repeal the government pension offset and windfall elimination provisions; include a Social Security Lockbox.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| RICHARD A JONES | — |
| MICHAEL W PLUMER | — |
Health Issues HCR
Improve the TRICARE program benefits in cost and coverage and enhance the program to ensure adequate numbers of quality health care providers; eliminate all preauthorization and non-availability statements for TRICARE Standard beneficiaries; prohibit proposed new yearly enrollment and cost sharing fees for TRICARE Prime, TRICARE for Life and TRICARE Standard along with large increases in prescription drug copays.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| RICHARD A JONES | — |
| MICHAEL W PLUMER | — |
Veterans VET
To permit all retired members of the Armed Forces to concurrently receive both Veterans Disability Compensation and Military Retired Pay with no offsets to either; to improve veterans health care and access to it; to allow payment of full military Survivor Benefits Plan (SBP) benefits concurrently with VA Dependency Indemnity Compensation (DIC); to provide a payment to members of the Merchant Marine Services from World War II; to totally rescind the freeze on enrollment of Priority 8 veterans into the VA health care system; to provide for an annual Cost of Living increase, as provided in law, for all benefits programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs; to allow Concurrent Receipt of both Military Retired Pay and VA Disability Compensation for all retirees to include all medically retired and those retirees rated at below 50 percent disabled.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| RICHARD A JONES | — |
| MICHAEL W PLUMER | — |
Medicare/Medicaid MMM
Authorize Medicare Reimbursement to DoD and DVA; stabilize Medicare without increasing costs prohibitively; protect Medicare by ensuring that any major change would grandfather retirees and those near retirement; ensuring that legislation is enacted to ensure Medicare reimbursement payments to physicians are not cut in order that those same physicians remain in the TRICARE and TRICARE for Life medical systems for active duty and retired military members and their families.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| RICHARD A JONES | — |
| MICHAEL W PLUMER | — |
Budget/Appropriations BUD
Provide insight into the President's Fiscal year Budget Proposal; Budget Resolution; military funding levels, military health care funding levels, military retiree pay and benefits, veterans disability and pension compensation and health care; Medicare and Social Security funding levels.
| Lobbyist | Covered position, as disclosed |
|---|---|
| RICHARD A JONES | — |
| MICHAEL W PLUMER | — |
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