David Nogueras | March 20, 2012 4:13 p.m. | Updated: March 20, 2012 4:13 p.m. | Bend, OR
Oregon?s tribal governments will soon be able to buy the same health insurance policies for their workers that federal employees get.
About 8 million people? are already covered by the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program.? It lets policyholders pick and choose from a variety of health care products.
The 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act extends the eligibility for that program to employees of tribal governments.
John O?Brien is the Director of Health Care and Insurance at the Office of Personnel Management.
That?s the agency that administers the plan. He says for the last year his agency has been developing a platform that links the roughly 600 tribal entities that are now eligible.? And he says thanks to the large economies of scale, using the plan could save money.
?Many tribes, from an employment stance, are actually very small.? I mean, we have, I think we?re up to 28 tribes that have signed up, and a number of those are 20 and 30 employees in rural and remote areas,? O'Brien says.
O?Brien says the cost of the plans, including administrative fees, will be shouldered by the tribal governments.
Source: http://news.opb.org/article/tribal-governments-qualify-federal-health-insurance/
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