Having the federal Office of Personnel Management run health exchanges for the uninsured – as the U.S. Senate health reform plan mandates – “does not mesh well” with the agency’s existing responsibilities, said one of the agency’s former directors.

One of the biggest obstacles going into the Senate’s debate on a comprehensive health care reform measure was the existence of a government-run public insurance option.

Claiming hundreds of thousands of federal employees were “grossly misled” by two insurers and a government agency regarding freezes in premiums for long-term care insurance, a Virginia congressman wants a hearing on the matter to prevent future incidents.