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The American Benefits Council has issued an action alert imploring pension plan sponsors to lend their voices in support of legislation aimed to implement pension reforms and regulatory clarifications. Read the alert here. Contact information for ABC and congressional leaders is included.
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In a June 12 letter to congressional leadership, American Benefits Council President James A. Klein urged swift enactment of legislation to stabilize pension plan funding while expressing strong concerns about efforts to increase employer-paid insurance premiums to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.
Baby boomers wired to their iPads and smart phones are giving U.S. health experts some new ideas about ways to cut the soaring costs of medical care in graying America.
Pennsylvania has been held up as a model for health care reform at the national level with regard to collecting and reporting quality and cost data, with employers in the Keystone State steering care to the best-performing hospitals.
In my August EBN editorial, I voiced my growing pessimism about the chances for full health care reform this year. Although at presstime, there still was a small chance for passage of legislation before the August recess, we now know that Congress' self-imposed deadline has come and gone.
Fresh off a new Congressional Budget Office scoring of their health care reform bill that drops the price tag from $1 trillion to just over $600 billion, Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee members have returned to marking up the Affordable Health Choices Act with renewed enthusiasm — at least from committee Democrats.