The National Coalition on Benefits (NCB) sent a letter to Senators Ron Wyden and Robert Bennett alerting them that S. 334 would have an adverse impact on employer-sponsored health coverage and would actually make it more difficult to achieve NCB and the Senators' common goal of addressing the needs of the 47 million Americans who lack health insurance. VIEW>

Group Heralds Rising Tide to Preserve Employer-Based Health Care Coverage VIEW>

The National Coalition on Benefits (NCB) sent letters to all of the presidential candidates urging them to consider the strength of the employment-based health care system and the importance of ERISA as they develop their health care agendas. This letter to Gov. Mitt Romney is illustrative of those sent to each of the candidates. VIEW>

The NCB is concerned and disappointed in the conclusion of the three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to stay the December 26, 2007 decision by the federal district court that ERISA preempts the Health Care Security Ordinance of the City of San Francisco.

The Department of Labor (DOL) and a number of other NCB members individually filed amicus briefs with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in support of Golden Gate Restaurant Association's legal challenge to the employer health spending requirement mandated by the San Francisco Health Care Security Ordinance. VIEW>

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