This committee develops Chamber policy recommendations on all employee benefit issues: health care, pension and retirement plans, and other employer-provided benefits, as well as public programs such as Social Security and Medicare. The committee oversees the Chamber's response to employee benefit legislation pending before all congressional committees of jurisdiction as well as regulatory initiatives before administrative agencies. The committee has a Retirement Plans Subcommittee and a Healthcare Regulatory Task Force (see separate description for the task force under Special Programs, Councils and Task Forces), which works on those issues in more technical detail than the full committee.
Chantel Sheaks, Executive Director of Retirement Policy for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, provided the following written statement to the 2019 Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans for the June 25, 2019 meeting titled "Beyond Plan Audit Compliance: Improving the Financial Statement Audit Process."
The undersigned organizations, are writing to urge you to pass H.R. 1994, the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement (SECURE) Act.
On June 14, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce filed a comment letter with the Senate Finance Committee's bipartisan health taskforce urging for full repeal of the Medical Device Tax, the Health Insurer Tax, and the "Cadillac Tax".
On June 11, 2019, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce sign a coalition letter along with several additional stakeholders, encouraging Congress to address the growing multiemployer pension plan crisis and offer legislative solutions for all plans.
This letter was submitted to the Department of Health and Human Services, supporting the removal of safe harbor protection for rebates involving prescription pharmaceuticals and creation of new safe harbor protections for certain point-of-sale reductions in price on prescription pharmaceuticals and certain pharmacy benefit manager service fees.
On March 5, 2019, the U.S. Chamber submitted a feedback in response to a letter circulated by a group of six bipartisan Senators requesting input from industry stakeholders on the issue of surprise medical billing.
February 12, 2019Submitted Electronically Via Federal Rulemaking Portal: www.regulations.gov Attention: RFI: RIN 0945-AA00U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesOffice for Civil RightsHubert Humphrey Building Room 509F200 Independence Avenue, SWWashington, DC 20201
Submitted Electronically Via Federal Rulemaking Portal: www.regulations.gov Attention: CC:PA:LPD:PRREG-13674-17Room 5205Internal Revenue ServiceP.O. Box 7604Ben Franklin StationWashington, DC 20044
Raising Retirement will highlight current successes of the private retirement system and will focus on regulatory and practical solutions that increase retirement plan coverage by small business plan sponsors, promote portable benefits, and explore other benefits that can help workers stay on track for retirement.
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Comments to CMS in response to Proposed Rule on Interoperability and Patient Access
This letter was submitted to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in response to the Proposed Rule, which is intended to move the health care ecosystem in the direction of interoperability, and to improve the access to and quality of information that Americans need to make informed health care decisions.