Sharron Angle/Husband Receive Government Health Care

[Political Junky]

ThinkProgress Sharron Angle And Her Husband Receive Government Health Care

Angle’s campaign acknowledged to Nevada journalist Jon Ralston Monday that both the candidate and her husband receive health care from the federal government. Spokeswoman Ciara Matthews said in a statement: “Mr. Ted Angle receives his pension through the (federal) Civil Service Retirement System. While it is not supplemented by the federal government, current civil servants pay into the program to pay the schedule of those already retired – much like how the Social Security Program works today. Mr. Angle does not qualify – nor does he receive Social Security benefits. His health insurance plan (the Federal Employee Health Program), which also covers Sharron, is a continuation of what he was receiving while he worked for the federal government.”

 

[Revere]

The FEHB, is, in fact, a choice of the best for-profit health care plans around, because they know what works.

FEHB Handbook -Introduction Provides the Coverage

Who Provides the Coverage?

Over 350 health plans are offered under the FEHB Program. Of the 14 available fee-for-service plans, seven are open to all enrollees, while another seven are available only to specific categories of employees. In addition, health maintenance organizations (HMOs) are available in most areas of the United States; you must live or work within a defined area to be eligible to enroll in a particular HMO.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

ThinkProgress Sharron Angle And Her Husband Receive Government Health Care

Angle’s campaign acknowledged to Nevada journalist Jon Ralston Monday that both the candidate and her husband receive health care from the federal government. Spokeswoman Ciara Matthews said in a statement: “Mr. Ted Angle receives his pension through the (federal) Civil Service Retirement System. While it is not supplemented by the federal government, current civil servants pay into the program to pay the schedule of those already retired – much like how the Social Security Program works today. Mr. Angle does not qualify – nor does he receive Social Security benefits. His health insurance plan (the Federal Employee Health Program), which also covers Sharron, is a continuation of what he was receiving while he worked for the federal government.”

So does Harry Reid and his wife, so what?

 

[CaféAuLait]

ThinkProgress Sharron Angle And Her Husband Receive Government Health Care

Angle’s campaign acknowledged to Nevada journalist Jon Ralston Monday that both the candidate and her husband receive health care from the federal government. Spokeswoman Ciara Matthews said in a statement: “Mr. Ted Angle receives his pension through the (federal) Civil Service Retirement System. While it is not supplemented by the federal government, current civil servants pay into the program to pay the schedule of those already retired – much like how the Social Security Program works today. Mr. Angle does not qualify – nor does he receive Social Security benefits. His health insurance plan (the Federal Employee Health Program), which also covers Sharron, is a continuation of what he was receiving while he worked for the federal government.”

(emphasis added)

Your point? Was he supposed to refuse the benefits he worked for all those years? As the article says the plan IS NOT supplemented by the federal government and HE PAID for the benefits when he worked.

 

[Avatar4321]

trying to create something out of nothing?

 

[Greenbeard]

The FEHB, is, in fact, a choice of the best for-profit health care plans around, because they know what works.

The FEHBP is an insurance exchange overseen and regulated by a federal agency. In principle, it's no different than the centerpiece of the ACA.

 

[Revere]

The FEHB, is, in fact, a choice of the best for-profit health care plans around, because they know what works.

The FEHBP is an insurance exchange overseen and regulated by a federal agency. In principle, it's no different than the centerpiece of the ACA.

Yeah, it is, because the ACA mandates all sorts of coverages none of those carriers have to comply with now. The difference is, the Federal goverment, you, me, the taxpayers, will eat the higher premiums, since the employer, the Federal government, pays about 3/4 of the premiums. Many private sector companies can't touch that. It's not an exchange, it's the biggest consumer of for profit group health on the planet, about half a million subscribers. There is no 80-20 rule, no dependent coverage of 26 year olds, no unlimited lifetime caps or coverage for pre-existing conditions. The meter starts running on that now.

That's not the same as the plan the Angles pay into now.

And if you're not in the FEHBP and your carrier does not meet those mandates, you can't enroll in another carrier's plan if it doesn't.

Those for profit plans are the very same ones the statist bastards have been bashing for the past two years.

Is it Tuesday yet?

 

[Greenbeard]

It's not an exchange, it's the biggest consumer of for profit group health on the planet, about half a million subscribers.

 

[Revere]

It's like GM was when GM employed twice as many people as they do now.

Exchanges are being used by DHHS to blackmail carriers.

Big difference.

 

[Revere]

It's funny to hear these statist dupes talk like "exchanges" are just like group health plans.

If that were so, what would we need a 2000 page bill, tens of thousands of pages in new regulations, and thousands of new bureaucrats, including IRS agents to "enforce" it?

I mean, if it was the same thing as we already have?

 

[Greenbeard]

It's funny to hear these statist dupes talk like "exchanges" are just like group health plans.

If that were so, what would we need a 2000 page bill, tens of thousands of pages in new regulations, and thousands of new bureaucrats, including IRS agents to "enforce" it?

I mean, if it was the same thing as we already have?

What an odd non sequitur. You're attempting to glean conceptual or policy content from...page count?

 

[Revere]

Obamacare is not FEHBP, you liar.

 

[Greenbeard]

You're right, the exchanges in ACA have significantly more latitude to determine the degree to which they'll act as active purchasers. Every state is responsible for designing its own exchange. An FEHBP model is one possibility, though a state can opt to set up a more assertive exchange or a more hands-off exchange.

The fact remains that the FEHBP is obviously an insurance exchange. Indeed, multi-state OPM-overseen plans (similar to those offered in the OPM-overseen FEHBP) will be available in every state exchange.

Why is it so uncomfortable to find out that Angle gets insurance through an exchange?

 

[Avatar4321]

You guys do understand the difference between working for something and not working for it, right?

 

[Greenbeard]

You guys do understand the difference between working for something and not working for it, right?

I take it you're not one of the reactionaries who denies that government work is work. That's good.

 

[Revere]

You're right, the exchanges in ACA have significantly more latitude to determine the degree to which they'll act as active purchasers. Every state is responsible for designing its own exchange. An FEHBP model is one possibility, though a state can opt to set up a more assertive exchange or a more hands-off exchange.

The fact remains that the FEHBP is obviously an insurance exchange. Indeed, multi-state OPM-overseen plans (similar to those offered in the OPM-overseen FEHBP) will be available in every state exchange.

Why is it so uncomfortable to find out that Angle gets insurance through an exchange?

It's not an exchange any more than large, multi-state companies have a choice of plans.

There is no government fist in the asses of carriers to do exactly as they are told, as there is with Obamacare. A carrier can opt not to offer a product or coverage at all to a FEHBP and not get destroyed as they would if they were de-listed from exhanges. It's extortion.

And again, taxpayers eat premium increases for FEHBP group plans that private parties can't.

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

ThinkProgress Sharron Angle And Her Husband Receive Government Health Care

Angle’s campaign acknowledged to Nevada journalist Jon Ralston Monday that both the candidate and her husband receive health care from the federal government. Spokeswoman Ciara Matthews said in a statement: “Mr. Ted Angle receives his pension through the (federal) Civil Service Retirement System. While it is not supplemented by the federal government, current civil servants pay into the program to pay the schedule of those already retired – much like how the Social Security Program works today. Mr. Angle does not qualify – nor does he receive Social Security benefits. His health insurance plan (the Federal Employee Health Program), which also covers Sharron, is a continuation of what he was receiving while he worked for the federal government.”

You do realize there is a difference between receiving health insurance as part of a pension you worked for and paid into, along with receiving social security that you paid into, and entitlements right?

I hope you do at least.

 

[Revere]

If the FEHBP were the same as Obamacare, the Federal government could merely say that anyone could buy into their group plans.

But that's not what 2000 pages of Obamacare and tens of thousands of pages of agency regulations are for, is it?

When are these guys going to fiigure out nobody is buying the shit they are selling?

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

If the FEHBP were the same as Obamacare, the Federal government could merely say that anyone could buy into their group plans.

But that's not what 2000 pages of Obamacare and tens of thousands of pages of agency regulations are for, is it?

When are these guys going to fiigure out nobody is buying the shit they are selling?

possibly tuesday and then november 2012 if things still dont change with the President.

 

[uscitizen]

ThinkProgress Sharron Angle And Her Husband Receive Government Health Care

Angle’s campaign acknowledged to Nevada journalist Jon Ralston Monday that both the candidate and her husband receive health care from the federal government. Spokeswoman Ciara Matthews said in a statement: “Mr. Ted Angle receives his pension through the (federal) Civil Service Retirement System. While it is not supplemented by the federal government, current civil servants pay into the program to pay the schedule of those already retired – much like how the Social Security Program works today. Mr. Angle does not qualify – nor does he receive Social Security benefits. His health insurance plan (the Federal Employee Health Program), which also covers Sharron, is a continuation of what he was receiving while he worked for the federal government.”

(emphasis added)

Your point? Was he supposed to refuse the benefits he worked for all those years? As the article says the plan IS NOT supplemented by the federal government and HE PAID for the benefits when he worked.

And others are paying for his benefits now.

Federal employees health care benefits should be merged into Medicare.
They should have to live like those they "serve"