Tom Coburn actually said...

I am not wanting to put you on the spot so I am going to ask this question where you don't have to answer it directly.

Coburn addresses a witness without pressuring them for an immediate answer.

03/04/2009

More Tom Coburn Quotes

If you include employee health benefits, the benefit package for the average employee of the Postal Service, excluding management, is $35,00...

They are penalizing the workers, men and women, of the United States Postal Service by threatening their jobs and undermining their benefits...

So that includes the management costs of the health plans that run this program.

We need to, in almost everything we do, ask this question: how do we get a better result for less money?