Mark DeSaulnier: “If you have some fire burning in you, you had better have it at full flame, because every day people are dying.”

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.'

This is a mixed market economy, a capitalist economy, and it requires rules and guidance.

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

We already have a universal health care system in this country, it is just really bad.