Under the administration’s proposed budget , the annual fees described in the previous item would be indexed to the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program effective Oct. 1, 2008. The Air Force Sergeants Association says this would gobble up COLA raises and more. For example, AFSA says by 2013 a married senior NCO on Tricare Prime would be paying more than $1,071 per year over current rates. A married E-6 in Tricare Standard would be paying $451 a year by 2013. Deductibles for all enlisted members in Tricare standard would balloon from $185 (single) and $370 (families) to $298 and $596 respectively. AFSA declares, “The administration plan for military health care increases would significantly degrade the value of the current military retirement benefit by taking an increasing amount of hard-earned dollars out of the pockets of retirees with no end in sight to the reduction of benefits.”