Are you retired and Medicare eligible? The Aetna Direct Self only plan (N61) costs only $131.92 per month. All your deductibles and copays are waived, including generic prescription drugs, and you get a portion of your Medicare Part B premium refunded! Your net cost is $190.92. How can you beat that? This is BETTER than…
By John Breslin – March 27, 2017 Legislation designed to tie U.S. Postal Service retiree health care plans more closely with Medicare could needlessly saddle seniors with two insurance premiums, according to one health policy expert who has studied a bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. If passed, the bill would also transfer…
By John Hatton – April 2017 Legislation that seeks to repair the finances of the United States Postal Service (USPS) garnered broad bipartisan support among leaders and members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform in the face of strong opposition from NARFE. NARFE has suggested a reasonable alternative to allow many retirees…
Via Bobby Donelson, APWU Southwest Costal Area Local Retiree Chapter President February 24, 2017 Dear President Mark Dimondstein: These are questions we have developed in the field and would like to have answers in your Q & A if possible. Most of the Questions were developed by California Union Representatives and Retiree Representatives. We hope…
By Ken Garner – December 2, 2016 Earlier this week a group of industry representatives met with Emily Murray, Staff Director of the Ways & Means Health Subcommittee to discuss the prospects of H.R. 5714. During the meeting the group learned that the Ways & Means Committee had serious concerns about the bill and would not…
By Walton J. Francis – September 14, 2016 The 2016 Postal Service Reform Act (H.R. 5714) proposes shifting postal retireesâ primary health care coverage from the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) to Medicare. Proponents call this a consensus proposal for integrating the FEHBP with Medicare. It is not. The proposalâs impact on both postal…
Wednesday, June 15, 2016 WASHINGTON â top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement today applauding the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform for releasing a bipartisan discussion draft to make much-needed reforms to the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). In September 2015, Senator Carper introduced the bipartisan…
By Editorial Board –Â January 26, 2016 THE SENATE could not have chosen a more appropriate title for last weekâs committee hearing on the nationâs troubled postal system: âLaying Out the Reality of the United States Postal Service.â Witness after expert witness explained just how desperate that reality is. In the age of email and text…
