Mark DeSaulnier: “We already have a universal health care system in this country, it is just really bad.”

This balance between the private sector and creating employer/employee good relationship... healthcare benefits are really important.

When ERISA was enacted in 1974, Congress made its intent clear. The law's primary purpose is to 'protect the interest of participants in employee benefit plans, and their beneficiaries.'

That was the most extreme in the ten years I have been here in Congress.

It has been my privilege in the three decades or more that I have been in elected office, starting with city council to become friends and part of the disability community.