ERISA Could Prevent State Efforts To Expand Health Care Access, According To Christian Science Monitor

The Christian Science Monitor on Thursday examined how the Employee Retirement Income Security Act — a federal law enacted in 1974 that exempts employer-sponsored pension plans, as well as health insurance and other benefits provided by employers, from state regulation — could “invalidate many of the budding efforts by states and cities to expand access to health care. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Seniors on October 5th, 2007