{"id":18066,"date":"2017-02-07T10:29:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T15:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=18066"},"modified":"2017-02-07T10:29:55","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T15:29:55","slug":"rolando-says-forcing-postal-retirees-into-medicare-is-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2017\/02\/07\/rolando-says-forcing-postal-retirees-into-medicare-is-a-good-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolando Says Forcing Postal Retirees Into Medicare Is A Good Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

2\/7\/17 – Today the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will hold the hearing entitled ACCOMPLISHING POSTAL REFORM IN THE 115TH CONGRESS \u2013 H.R. 756, THE POSTAL SERVICE REFORM ACT OF 2017. Scheduled to speak are PMG Megan J. Brennan, Robert G. Taub – Chairman Postal Regulatory Commission, Ms. Lori Rectanus – Director, Physical Infrastructure Issues U.S. Government Accountability Office, Mr. Arthur Sackler – Manager, Coalition for a 21st Century Postal Service (large mailers), and Mr. Fredric V. Rolando – President National Association of Letter Carriers. You may read the statement of each here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In his statement to the committee NALC President Rolando states that he believes that automatically enrolling postal annuitants into Medicare Parts A & B at age 65 is a good thing…we DO NOT. This bill could pass without reneging on benefits promised to postal employees when hired and at retirement\u00a0by forcing postal annuitants into Medicare coverage. Here is that portion of Rolando’s statement:<\/p>\n

“Under H.R. 756, FEHBP plans would segregate postal employees and postal annuitants into
\na separate risk pool and all postal annuitants would enroll in Medicare Parts A&B when they<\/em><\/strong>
\nreach 65 years old<\/em><\/strong>. (At present, 80-90 percent of postal annuitants already voluntarily enroll in
\nthe two main parts of Medicare. PEN Editor…this may or may not be true<\/em>) The proposal would also give FEHBP plans access to low-cost
\nprescription drugs and other benefits made possible by the Medicare Modernization Act. The
\nsavings would help reduce FEHBP premium costs — and prefunding costs. Indeed, about half
\nthe reduction in the Postal Service\u2019s unfunded liability would come from prescription drug
\nsavings; the rest from maximizing the participation in Medicare Parts A and B.”<\/p>\n

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2\/7\/17 – Today the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform will hold the hearing entitled ACCOMPLISHING POSTAL REFORM IN THE 115TH CONGRESS \u2013 H.R. 756, THE POSTAL SERVICE REFORM ACT OF 2017. Scheduled to speak are PMG Megan J. Brennan, Robert G. Taub – Chairman Postal Regulatory Commission, Ms. Lori Rectanus – Director, Physical Infrastructure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18067,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18066\/revisions\/18067"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}