[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Let's get this straight. Tony is NOT a President, Senator, or Congressman, but a federal executive branch employee subject to the same GS schedule and insurance benefits (and limitations) as other federal employees. I'm not sure if he is SES level or not, but regardless, government insurance plans, nice as they are, do have coverage limits, particularly with cancer treatments.

So, unless you are a government employee with insider knowledge of available group plans for federal civil servants, I'll write your comments off as ignorance of how federal benefits actually work.

Oh, here's your link:

http://www.opm.gov/insure/">http://www.opm.gov/insure/

[singfreedom]

Most insurances, even “federal”, have pre-existing condition reservations. Since Tony had cancer, the first time, before he took the job for the White House the pre-existing condition clause may have kicked in.