Research and Policy Reports

Economic research commissioned by the Council and the Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers (CIAB) shows that proposals for capping the tax exclusion for employer-provided health coverage would bring about negative consequences for the U.S. economy, including substantial job losses, reduced GDP and lower employee compensation, as well as worse health outcomes.

The American Benefits Council shows how the 340B drug pricing program is being manipulated by hospital systems and increasing health care costs for everyone in the health care system.

DESTINATION 2030: A Roadmap for the Future of Employee Benefits is the American Benefits Council's long-term public policy strategic plan. Developed and overseen by the Council's Policy Board of Directors, this plan is designed to guide the Council's advocacy through the year 2030.

To better understand the value of ERISA preemption to large employers, the Employee Benefit Research Institute and the American Benefits Council conducted roundtable discussions with over a dozen benefits executives at large companies.

The Council's updated and enhanced 401(k) Fast Facts is a dynamic series of infographics that highlight the dominance and success of defined contribution retirement plans. The 2024 edition provides a clear and comprehensive and snapshot of how these plans are delivering financial security to employees.

The American Benefits Council teamed with the Urban Institute and the Deloitte Health Equity Institute to prepare and release a report describing how health equity can be advanced through improved collection and sharing of race and ethnicity data.

This study of more than a dozen employers shows how, against the backdrop of pandemic trials and tragedy, plan sponsors followed through on extraordinary efforts and achievements to overcome the crisis and keep their employees healthy.

In the Council's role as a resource on retirement policy issues, we have assembled this collection of data and research from reputable sources to demonstrate the strength and vitality of 401(k) plans and the employer-sponsored retirement system.

In this white paper, developed in partnership with Mercer and Catalyst for Payment Reform, the Council describes the current challenges and opportunities related to telemedicine and proposes four key considerations for policymakers.

This American Benefits Institute/Aon plc study of over 200 multinational companies from around the world asked global compensation and benefits leaders for their views of on best practices in global benefits management.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- "The American Benefits Council is proud to release American Benefits Legacy, a report that is both a thorough accounting of America's employer-sponsored health and retirement benefits system and a validation of the Council's mission to preserve it," Council President James A. Klein said today.

Employers, whose health plans cover more than 178 million people nationwide, are on the front lines of the battle against opioid addiction. The American Benefits Council applauds Congressional efforts to combat the opioid epidemic and hopes to provide some additional perspective on the efforts of American employers to combat addiction and improve treatment.

In collaboration with Mercer, the American Benefits Council has composed a playbook of some of employers' most innovative health coverage strategies to deliver greater value to employees and improve overall health outcomes.

The results from the Council's national poll, conducted by Public Opinion Strategies from November 5-9, 2017, show Americans' attitudes toward, and appreciation of, employer-provided health and retirement plans.

This paper describes the economic foundation for the successful employer-sponsored health benefit system and identifies six pervasive misperceptions often used to justify a cap on the health tax exclusion.

A nationwide poll of voters confirms that Congress would be making a huge mistake, as a matter of both policy and politics, if they replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA) with a plan that taxes employer-sponsored health coverage.

A new report from the American Benefits Institute, developed in partnership with Aon Hewitt, reveals the mounting challenges that are continuing to drive the centralization of global benefits management.

To underscore the Council's pragmatic approach to addressing serious obstacles facing the employer-sponsored health system, this report highlights six serious health policy challenges the Council has identified and offers legislative proposals to fix them.

This long-term public policy strategic plan sets forth conditions that should be in place by 2020 to enable Americans to achieve personal health and financial well-being, while also specifying 46 legislative and regulatory policy recommendations for reaching our goals.

Despite the current soundness of the PBGC single-employer program, proposals to increase PBGC premiums are under consideration. These increases are not only unnecessary, they also threaten the long-term viability of both the defined benefit pension system and the PBGC's plan termination insurance program by further driving away employers that present no risk to the system.