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Policy Watch: The Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan

  • Roger Feldman
  • Kenneth E. Thorpe
  • Bradley Gray
Journal of Economic Perspectives
vol. 16, no. 2, Spring 2002
(pp. 207-217)
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Abstract

This short feature describes the Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan (FEHBP), which provides health insurance benefits to active and retired federal employees and their dependents. The article discusses the FEHBP as a touchstone for research on employment-based health insurance and as a touchstone for health policy reform.

Citation

Feldman, Roger, Kenneth E. Thorpe, and Bradley Gray. 2002. "Policy Watch: The Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 16 (2): 207-217. DOI: 10.1257/0895330027201

JEL Classification

  • J45 Public Sector Labor Markets
  • I18 Health: Government Policy; Regulation; Public Health
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