BY FROMA HARROP Those who liken the health plan for government employees to the Republican plan for moving Medicare to private insurers miss a significant difference: the patients. The Federal Employee Health Benefits program works because its beneficiaries tend to be young and healthy. The many employees not needing expensive care subsidize the few who do. When government workers retire at 65 – at which point they may start needing more health care – Medicare […]
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