Mark DeSaulnier: “Instead of going backwards, we should be focusing on expanding quality health coverage for all Americans, workers…”

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

I am concerned by the proposals to take us backward.

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.'

The denial would eventually be reversed, but the decision came almost a month after Kyree's death.