The House of Representatives will be considering a postal reform bill this week on the floor. However, there is a significant issue with the bill as the language contains a back door bailout to cover the health care costs of United States Postal Service (USPS) employees. Republicans might want to read the bill again to make sure they cast a vote in support of well-intentioned efforts to help the post office become less unprofitable and hastening the insolvency of Medicare in the process.
It is good that Congress is trying to find ways to be bipartisan and move legislation to solve the problems facing the Postal Service. Postal reform is one area where the American people and Congress can find common ground. The main issue with this proposal is that the bill contains a provision that will help the postal service at the expense of elderly recipients of Medicare. A result of implementing this could lead to more pressure on Congress to hike taxes to pay for Medicare recipients who are in a program destined for insolvency in the near future.
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