HEALTH CARE

NARFE has taken NO position on the health care reform legislation currently receiving serious consideration in the House and the Senate. That’s because the status of the leading bills is extremely fluid and is subject to change. Neither the House nor the Senate bills would open the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) to non-federal civilians nor would FEHBP be offered as the proposed public health care plan. More in depth analysis on the legislation will appear in the September NARFE magazine and will be sent to NARFE members by e-mail via GEMS.

Many NARFE members have contacted the Legislative Department regarding e-mail they have received which make various claims about the health care reform bills.

NARFE advises members to carefully scrutinize such messages because some of them in current circulation provide misleading or false information.

NARFE members who are interested in receiving accurate, nonpartisan analysis about the major health care reform bills, including the Senate Finance Committee, Senate Health, Education, Labor and Education (HELP) Committee and the House Tri-Committee proposals, visit the Kaiser Family Foundation side-by-side bill comparison web site at: http://www.kff.org/healthreform/sidebyside.cfm . The Kaiser Foundation is not associated with Kaiser Permanente or Kaiser Industries.