Health Care is Making the Postmaster General Angry

Fed up with paying about $7.3 billion annually in health care for postal workers, retirees and dependents, Patrick R. Donahoe is pushing plans that would allow USPS to spin out of the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) and establish a separate postal health care system.

During an interview late last week, Donahoe was clearly annoyed and angry with the Obama administration and Congress for not endorsing his plans to remove USPS from FEHBP—a massive program providing an array of options for life insurance and health, dental, vision and long term care based on a worker or retiree’s occupation, labor union