ERISA: Teaching an Old Law New Tricks to Expand Health Care Access

• In Event: The Politicization of Healthcare

Brief Overview

ERISA governs the majority of employer-provided health insurance plans in the US, yet its design disincentivizes litigation against health insurers should they decline to cover prescribed care. This undercuts accountability of health insurance actors

Author

• Miranda Elyse Yaver, Wheaton College-Norton