The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing regulations for  a new "Multi-State Plan Program" (MSPP) that could, in effect, give ordinary consumers access to health plans that are similar to the plans federal employees use.

OPM has posted a 122-page preliminary version of the MSPP regulations on the Web.

The regulations are set to appear in the Federal Register Dec. 5.

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Allison Bell

Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.

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