[Thebaddog]

The point is that the federal plan has many more options than you or I will have in the new bills and the federal employees will be exempt from the new plan being considered.

[muawiyah]

As a retired federal government employee I am very much aware of what choices I presently have and how this bill affects them.

WE ARE SCREWED.

Do not believe Obama ~ he's lieing to you.

BTW, about half the medical coverage plans shown in the FEHB handbook affect only State Department employees who travel overseas regularly. They aren't really open to other people.

The big plans regularly used by federal government employees are pretty much the same ones available to everybody else ~ and are limited by statelines, et al.

[expat_panama]

"...federal employees will be exempt from the new plan..."

You have a link or is that a rumor?  If it's true than that would be good; the more people exempt the better.  My bet is that any federal employee exemption would at best be temporary, like their exemption for social security was.