Kathleen Carr-Smith

[Kathleen Carr-Smith @kcarrsmith]

@RepDeborahRoss Thank you for your leadership on this. I changed my name 35 years ago when I got married. It's been my name for longer than the name on my birth certificate. I shouldn't have to get a passport to vote. That's a poll tax.

[Kathleen Carr-Smith @kcarrsmith]

@AJamesMcCarthy Stunning! Thanks for sharing you gift.

[Kathleen Carr-Smith @kcarrsmith]

@roycan79 As cute as this may be, you should never touch curing concrete with bare skin, can cause 3rd degree burns.

[Kathleen Carr-Smith @kcarrsmith]

@LindseyGrahamSC You are a disgrace.

[Kathleen Carr-Smith @kcarrsmith]

@AJamesMcCarthy That's beautiful.

[Kathleen Carr-Smith @kcarrsmith]

@JoJoFromJerz Well said!

[Kathleen Carr-Smith @kcarrsmith]

@NancyMace What is wrong with you?

[ERISA Industry Cmte. @ERISAIndCmte]

ERIC recognizes the complexity, particularly for employers, of the recently released Proposed Rule on Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, and requested more time to submit comments to the agencies.

Read ERIC’s press statement: https://t.co/18SeGmkb5Q

[ERISA Industry Cmte. @ERISAIndCmte]

Read more from @PLANSPONSOR on ERIC's recent ask to Congress to reexamine plan sponsor premiums.
https://t.co/DmzJynLroP

[ERISA Industry Cmte. @ERISAIndCmte]

SECURE 2.0 included a number of changes to ERISA’s notice and disclosure provisions. ERIC’s Andy Banducci was quoted in Bloomberg Law discussing the importance of shaping disclosure rules that work for both plan participants and employers. Read more below. https://t.co/waNo3J90R1

[ERISA Industry Cmte. @ERISAIndCmte]

ERIC commends the Senate Finance Committee's efforts to increase transparency & accountability within the health system and recently joined a coalition with industry leaders urging the Senate to expand their focus to include hospital prices. Read more: https://t.co/onbM7jKKvf

[ERISA Industry Cmte. @ERISAIndCmte]

ERIC is producing a summary for members of the Proposed Rules to the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act released this morning. ERIC also created a working group to draft comprehensive comments on the Proposed Rule.

Learn more here: https://t.co/EirKMe83Tq

[ERISA Industry Cmte. @ERISAIndCmte]

ERIC was honored to join a roundtable discussion today hosted by the Bipartisan Working Group on Paid Leave to highlight the need for relief from a growing patchwork of inconsistent state and local paid leave mandates. Learn more: https://t.co/kIJUnETNFV

[ERISA Industry Cmte. @ERISAIndCmte]

ERIC supports legislation that increases competition in the drug market, including the recent “Biosimilar Red Tape Elimination Act” introduced by Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM), Mike Braun (R-IN), and J.D. Vance (R-OH).

Read more here: https://t.co/eUj7kRYoUx

[ERISA Industry Cmte. @ERISAIndCmte]

ERIC is continuing to advocate on behalf of its large employer members to ensure less burdensome plan administration & SECURE 2.0 implementation, including recommendation letters to the IRS. Read more on the potential impacts of Section 603 for employers: https://t.co/9RmGiijGVy.

[ERISA Industry Cmte. @ERISAIndCmte]

Employers are limited by not having access to the information #transparency rules are designed to address. ERIC urges Congress to ensure better transparency & accountability by extending the ERISA fiduciary duty of plans sponsors to their PBMs. Read more👇https://t.co/7U0GlUd4BH

[ERISA Industry Cmte. @ERISAIndCmte]

The Roth catch-up requirements in SECURE 2.0 present recordkeeping and other challenges for large retirement plan sponsors. ERIC joined a coalition of industry leaders to urge Congress and the Treasury Department to delay its implementation. Read more:
https://t.co/Xe5pWlFffY

[ERISA Industry Cmte. @ERISAIndCmte]

“A more accountable and transparent PBM industry has the potential to save employers billions of dollars.”

Read more from ERIC SVP of health policy Melissa Bartlett's recent @EBNbenefitnews PBM op-ed: https://t.co/VUat06mxW0

[ERISA Industry Cmte. @ERISAIndCmte]

ERIC is here to help our large plan sponsor members monitor and navigate the state PBM landscape. Read more from @WTWcorporate about how recent state laws regulating PBMs are affecting self-insured group health plans under ERISA preemption: https://t.co/BECjmVEODC.

[ERISA Industry Cmte. @ERISAIndCmte]

ERIC’s Andy Banducci spoke about SECURE 2.0 and the compliance challenges facing retirement plan sponsors at the 2023 @PLANSPONSOR National Conference. He was joined on the panel by David Levine from @groomlawgroup.
#PSNC2023