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      1. "Under the law, the mandate that required the Postal Service to pay into future retiree health benefits will be dropped. Instead, retired postal employees will be required to enroll in Medicare." ...so, a step on the road to #MedicareForAll possibly? @ByEllaLee/1511788379687596044
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      "It will also be able to create ‘non-postal services’ in partnership with state and local government, like fishing licenses and subway passes, McConnell said." That seems kinda weird for the POSTAL Service to be doing, but then again so did postal banking...
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    ...and postal banking advocates successfully opened my mind to the possibility that that's something they could do, so maybe it could work for other things, too? (Also note that "McConnell" is someone by the first name of "Porter", not "Mitch", btw)
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      ah ok they got to the [lack of a] postal banking part just a few paragraphs later: "[S]ome items the bill could have added include postal banking, funds to make postal trucks electric with public charging stations, census outreach and grocery delivery."
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