Political Quotes

“We are treating all employers the same. In this instance, in this particular category, it is those employers who do not have a designated decisionmaker. That is the intent of this particular provision: To treat them equally so they are not subjected to liability when it comes to contractual matters, whereas other employers are not who contract with insurance companies and have a designated decisionmaker. That is what the intent is of this legislation. It is to treat them all equally and to draw that bright line. We could say, let's not address the self-insured and self-administered programs. I do not think that is fair either because, obviously, they have a different kind of program, and we want to encourage that. We commend them for the kind of benefits they are providing their employees. They happen to be large employers, and they want to design their own internal program. But we don't want to subject them to litigation to which other employers are not going to be subjected.”