"Allow self-employed Americans access to the same type of group coverage available to businesses"? Check — Obamacare does that by creating exchanges where the group is a state government or the feds.

"Include insurance plans in all 50 states"? Check — Obamacare does that, through 17 state-run exchanges and 27 federally run state exchanges. Seven states have "partnership" systems. It's not totally clear from the graphic, but Issa supports the government offering health-insurance plans that are available across state lines. Obamacare does not provide that option.

"Guarantee coverage, regardless of health status, pre-existing conditions or age"? Check, check, check. That's the whole "getting rid of discrimination against people with pre-existing conditions" part of the plan. Obamacare ends at age 65, when people become eligible for Medicare, while the FEHBP plan can be continued for certain eligible employees into retirement. That makes the plan for federal workers a more generous perk than Obamacare. Also, as Josh Barro has pointed out, the FEHBP imposes more restrictions on insurers than Obamacare does, because it requires the same rates for people of all ages, while people who are middle-aged are charged more than the young under Obamacare.

Issa says his plan "Would not: Hurt small businesses with heavy fines and burdens, forcing them to reduce hours, lay off workers and cut benefits." But small businesses — those that employ fewer than 50 people — are already exempt from the mandate to provide insurance under Obamacare, so it's not clear what Issa is talking about here. Instead, Obamacare is supposed to provide those small businesses with tools to make it easier for them to purchase insurance for their employees by setting up marketplaces where they can go to find insurance for them, though the online roll-out of the small-business insurance marketplaces has been delayed.

Issa also says his plan "Would not: Break the federal budget by adding trillions of dollars to the deficit." "[T]his IS the system that members, staff and gov't officials use & it's a proven, low-cost model," Issa insisted.

But the only reason FEHBP is "low-cost" to consumers is that the federal government, as an employer, picks up about 75 percent of the premium tab for whatever insurance people pick through the system, according to the Office of Personnel Management.

In fact, the debate in Congress right now over whether or not there will be what Republicans are calling "special breaks" for Congress under Obamacare is really about whether or not congressional staffers will continue to get an employer subsidy once they move into Obamacare — a system designed for people who lack insurance or who are already in the individual market, and which provides no subsidy for people who can get insurance through their employers or to those who earn as much as many congressional staffers.