134. Well Care vs Sick Care: Fixing Federal Healthcare | Shane Stevens | The Feds

<p><em>Note: At the time of this recording, Shane Stevens was the Associate Director of Healthcare and Insurance. He resigned shortly after filming was completed.</em></p><p>🔥 The federal government runs one of the largest employer-sponsored health benefit systems in the world — covering roughly<strong>8.2 million federal employees</strong>, with a budget of over <strong>$44 billion</strong>, dozens of carriers, and hundreds of plan options. Now, that system is being challenged to move away from<strong>reactive sick care</strong> towards <strong>well care</strong>. </p><p>In this episode,<strong>Stephanie Weidle</strong> sits down with <strong>Shane Stevens</strong>, <strong>now former Associate Director of Healthcare and Insurance in the Office of Personnel Management (OPM),</strong> to break down the new<strong>Federal Employee Health Benefits call letter</strong> and what it could mean for federal employees, retirees, families, and taxpayers.</p><p><strong>🎯 </strong>This conversation exposes the central problem with American health care:<br><strong>We reward sickness, prescriptions, and repeat visits — but not prevention, personal responsibility, and true wellness.</strong></p><p>Shane explains how the new direction pushes insurance carriers to focus on:</p><ul><li>Preventing chronic disease before it starts </li><li>Treating the whole person — body, mind, and spirit </li><li>Supporting informed medical decision-making </li><li>Encouraging personal responsibility and health ownership </li><li>Improving outcomes while lowering long-term costs </li><li>Looking at non-pharmaceutical interventions </li><li>Rethinking obesity, GLP-1 drugs, maternal care, fraud, waste, abuse, and trust in the medical system </li></ul><p><em>This is not just a benefits policy discussion. It is a major signal that the health freedom movement is reaching the federal insurance system.</em></p><p><strong>Read the 2027 Federal Employee Health Benefits Call Letter:</strong><a href="https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/USOPM/2026/03/31/file_attachments/3601982/CL2026-07%20-%202026%20FEHB%20Call%20Letter.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener"><u>https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/USOPM/2026/03/31/file_attachments/3601982/CL2026-07%20-%202026%20FEHB%20Call%20Letter.pdf</u></a></p><p><strong>🎧 Listen to</strong><em><strong> The Feds</strong></em><strong> on </strong><a href="https://jameserdman.substack.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener"><u><strong>Substack</strong></u></a><strong> &amp; all other platforms:</strong><a href="https://taplink.cc/fedsforfreedom" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener"><u><strong> </strong></u></a><a href="https://taplink.cc/fedsforfreedom" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener"><u><strong>https://taplink.cc/fedsforfreedom</strong></u></a></p><p><br></p><p><strong>🇺🇸 Visit our Website:</strong><a href="http://fedsforfreedom.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener"><u><strong> </strong></u></a><a href="http://fedsforfreedom.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener"><u><strong>FedsForFreedom.org</strong></u></a><strong> </strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>🏃 Follow us on</strong><a href="https://www.instagram.com/feds4freedomusa" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener"><u><strong> </strong></u></a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/feds4freedomusa" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener"><u><strong>Instagram</strong></u></a><strong> /</strong><a href="https://twitter.com/feds4freedomusa" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener"><u><strong>X</strong></u></a><strong> /</strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Feds4FreedomUSA/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener"><u><strong>Facebook</strong></u></a><strong>:  @feds4freedomusa</strong></p><p><br></p>