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Phase 4: Wave 4: everyone · Step 4.2

End employer-sponsored insurance for covered services

Year 4 · Employers; DOL; OPM (FEHB); state & local governmentsDiscuss this step
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Task 4.2.5 of 6

Taft-Hartley multiemployer health funds: convert to supplementary benefits or close, with assets distributed to participants or pension funds by trustee vote.

Who does it
Trustees / DOL
When
Year 4
Trade-off

Dissolving Taft-Hartley funds returns assets to members but ends union-run institutions.

Part of: End employer-sponsored insurance for covered services

Job-based coverage for UHP services ends for about 179 million people. Employer premium payments of $1.05T (private, federal, state & local) stop; the employer tax ($873.4B) is at its full rate. Worker premium contributions ($382.1B) end.

This step changes 5 existing laws, programs, or institutions. See the list.