FEHBP

Federal Employees Health Benefits Program

A key component of government bureaucracy in U.S. health care

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"The Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program can help you and your family meet your health care needs. Federal employees, retirees and their survivors enjoy the widest selection of health plans [from for-profit health insurance companies] in the country. You can choose from among Consumer-Driven and High Deductible plans that offer catastrophic risk protection with higher deductibles, health savings/reimbursable accounts and lower premiums, or Fee-for-Service (FFS) plans, and their Preferred Provider Organizations (PPO), or Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO) if you live (or sometimes if you work) within the area serviced by the plan."
--- copied 5/21/2011 from the federal government's FEHBP homepage

 Additional Information

The government's FEHBP web pages have more information. 

This program is a key component of the government bureaucracy related to health care.

More about U.S. Congress health care benefits

Go here to return to (or go to) Congress Health Care: an explanation of the health care benefits available to members of Congress, because there are also local health care benefits, available only in Washington, D.C. Those are provided at an especially low cost.