PROTECTING THE HEALTH INSURANCE OF MORE THAN 181 MILLION AMERICANS

EMPLOYERS URGE ACTION ON HEALTH CARE PRIORITIES BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR

Who We Are

We are a coalition of businesses and associations committed to protecting the ability of employers to provide uniform health benefits to employees across the country. The Coalition is dedicated to the preservation of ERISA and the favorable tax treatment of employer-provided coverage.

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What is ESI?

Employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) is the source of health care coverage for more than half of all Americans. Employers sponsor health plans to recruit and retain the best talent, but also to engage employees in leading healthy and productive lives.

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Opportunities

More than 181 million Americans get their health coverage today through employers. Employer-sponsored insurance simply works – ESI provides employers and other stakeholders with incentives and opportunities to innovate, strengthen and protect the system from threats.

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Threats

Policymakers should avoid policies that weaken the pillars that support employer-sponsored insurance. Policy proposals that threaten ERISA’s uniformity or seek to change the tax treatment of coverage will decrease innovation and increase costs for employees. The NCB works to prevent these efforts.

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The Latest

Letter to Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on ERISA Preemption

Date: September 13, 2023

Subject: Protect ERISA Preemption and Preserve Uniform Benefits for Self‐insured Health andWelfare Plans Dear Chairman Sanders and Ranking Member Cassidy: The undersigned members and allies of the National Coalition on Benefits (NCB) stronglyoppose any measures, provisions, commentary or other actions in legislation or during thelegislative process that would directly or indirectly curtail, restrict or otherwise […]

Letter to Senate Supporting Legislation to Repeal the Cadillac Tax

Date: September 17, 2019

Dear Majority Leader McConnell and Democratic Leader Schumer: The National Coalition on Benefits (NCB), a coalition of businesses and associations committed to protecting the ability of employers to provide uniform employee health benefits across the country, strongly supports legislation to permanently repeal the Affordable Care Act’s “Cadillac tax,” a 40 percent excise tax imposed on […]