Switching partners? How about switching health plans?

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Switching partners? How about switching health plans?

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

November 22, 2017 2:32 pm

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Is it true that federal workers and retirees voluntarily change spouses, partners or significant others more often than they switch health plans? And if so, what does that mean? What does that say about priorities? What about people who have been with the same health plan since the 1990s?

Walton Francis, author of the Consumers’ 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 radio show.

Francis is the nation’s expert on federal health plans and he’ll go over tips you can use to get the best coverage at the lowest premium.

That is 10 a.m. today on Federal News Radio or 1500 AM in the D.C. metro area. This is a brand-new show but because it was pre-recorded we won’t be able to take telephone calls. The Nov. 29 show will be live and immediately following it, Walt Francis and Mike will be doing a webchat.