H.R. 4489 focuses on a specific market: prescription drug coverage for federal employees; the legislation would impose a wide variety of restrictions, controls, and mandates.

What reforms will revive the FEHBP and improve Medicare?

This careful analysis of Medicare and the FEHBP is an invaluable guide for policymakers considering major health reforms while juggling the twin problems of runaway health care spending and looming Medicare insolvency.

Walton Francis explains what you need to know about the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) as Senate Democrats debate an alternative to the public option that would ostensibly be modeled on the FEHBP.

An expert panel will discuss the impact of proposals to restructure FEHBP and what they imply for both the survival of the program and the broader health system under the president’s health care reform.

In Putting Medicare Consumers in Charge: Lessons from the FEHBP, noted health insurance expert Walton Francis identifies key lessons from that experience, arguing not only that both Medicare and the FEHBP can be improved, but also that each program contains lessons--both positive and negative--for national health care reform today.

Among many matters being discussed in the debate over the debt limit are proposals to reform health insurance policies used to supplement Medicare, such as so-called Medigap plans. Such reforms reportedly could save $53 billion over ten years.