Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), chairman of the Senate armed services subcommittee on military personnel, signaled Tuesday he will support a plan to allow drilling Reserve and Guard members to have access to the menu of health insurance plans offered to federal civilian employees. "We're actually thinking about taking the Guard and Reserve and basically putting [them] into the federal employees health system, right," Graham asked Scott Bousum, legislative director of The Enlisted Association of the National Guard, who acknowledged the plan. "To me that's pretty exciting," Graham said. "I mean Guard and Reservists, generally speaking, are not [residing] next to military treatment facilities. And it basically would give you the same access to providers as members of Congress and our staffs have." For more details, see this Military Advantage blog post.
Graham: Offer Guard & Reserves FEHBP Health Plans
