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Ron Johnson: “The game plan would be to offload the roughly hundred…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Sen. Johnson in HSGAC Hearing

Published | Video Starts at 07:54

As mentioned, the Postal Service has paid $29 billion into that fund and our employees should benefit from it. We're asking to be treated like any self funded entity. But according to the. So what The game plan would be to offload the roughly hundred billion dollar liability of the health benefit plan on Medicare. but we're not transferring the assets in that health benefit plan. So you're going to offload about $100 billion liability into Medicare, but the postal system is going to maintain the $50 billion of assets in that in their fund. (07:54–08:05)

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Asserts that there is a plan to transfer a $100 billion health benefit liability to Medicare.

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