Checkbook Guide to Health Plans for Federal Employees

  • Every year, Uncle Sam holds an extensive and expensive open season when federal workers, retirees and their survivors can update, enroll in or change their benefits package.

    November 22, 2017
  • It's open season which means federal workers, retirees and their survivors are updating, enrolling in or changing their benefits package. How can you get the best coverage at the lowest premium? Find out when Walton Francis, author of the Consumer's Checkbook Guide to Health Plans for Federal Employees. joins host Mike Causey on this week's Your Turn. November 22, 2017

    November 21, 2017
  • If you work for Uncle Sam and are reasonably healthy, there’s a good chance you can get free health insurance next year.

    November 21, 2017
  • Do you need to get Medicare Part B? What are the advantages of an HMO? What’s the difference between a self only plan, a self-plus-one plan and a family plan? Walton Francis, author of the Checkbook Guide to Health Plans for Federal Employees, will answer those questions and more when he joins host Mike Causey on this week's Your Turn.

    November 14, 2017
  • If somebody offered you $2,000 for two hours of work and it's not illegal, immoral or fattening, would you take it?

    November 14, 2017
  • This week on Your Turn, host Mike Causey interviews federal benefits expert Walton Francis, AAFMAA COO Mike Meese and FEEA executive director Steve Bauer. December 14, 2016.

    December 13, 2016
  • Walton Francis, author of the Checkbook Guide to Health Plans for Federal Employees and Annuitants joins Mike Causey on this week's Your Turn to answer your questions about FEHBP open season which ends Dec. 12. December 7, 2016

    December 06, 2016
  • If you buy insurance now and your status changes next year, what happens? Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says you get your own, anytime open season.

    December 06, 2016
  • Has the federal health insurance hunting season got you bewitched, bothered and bewildered? Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says it'd be worse if you didn't work for Uncle Sam.

    December 01, 2016
  • Is your federal health plan a sleeping giant? Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says failure to shop during the current open season could cost you a ton of money.

    November 30, 2016
  • Federal benefits expert Walt Francis joins host Mike Causey on this week's Your Turn to answer your questions about government health savings accounts, and how they can save you money. November 30, 2016

    November 29, 2016
  • Most people know there are ways to save money on health insurance, but Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says there are also ways to actually make money while insured.

    November 29, 2016
  • AAFMAA COO Mike Meese and Walt Francis, editor of the Checkbook Guide to Health Plans for Federal Employees and Annuitants, join host Mike Causey on this week's Your Turn to answer your questions about the new military retirement system and FEHBP open season. November 23, 2016

    November 22, 2016
  • Federal benefits expert and author Walton Francis joins host Mike Causey on this week's Your Turn to discuss FEHBP open season and what you can do to save money on your health care premiums. November 16, 2016

    November 15, 2016
  • Insurance expert and author Walton Francis joins host Mike Causey to talk about how the pending Postal Service Reform Act, could affect the health care benefits of both postal and non-postal workers. September 28, 2016

    September 27, 2016