{"id":19542,"date":"2022-02-25T07:59:38","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T12:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19542"},"modified":"2022-02-25T07:59:40","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T12:59:40","slug":"plan-to-fix-postal-service-shifts-new-retirees-to-medicare-along-with-billions-in-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19542","title":{"rendered":"Plan to Fix Postal Service Shifts New Retirees to Medicare \u2014 Along With Billions in Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Michael McAuliff for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A congressional effort to fix the nation\u2019s deteriorating mail service may come at the expense of an even bigger and more complicated problem: Medicare solvency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Postal Service Reform Act of 2022 would help shore up post office finances by ending the unusual and onerous legal requirement to fund 75 years of retirement health benefits in advance. In return, it would require future Postal Service retirees to enroll in Medicare.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/postal-service-funding-bipartisan-plan-pushes-new-retirees-to-medicare\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/postal-service-funding-bipartisan-plan-pushes-new-retirees-to-medicare\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"104\" class=\"wp-image-899\" style=\"width: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-390x205.png 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Michael McAuliff for Kaiser Health News) A congressional effort to fix the nation\u2019s deteriorating mail service may come at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,10,6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-finance","category-legislative-update","category-medicare-general","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19543,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19542\/revisions\/19543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}