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.

2024 Fast Facts on 401(k) retirement plans

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.

Over the past 18 months, the COVID-19 pandemic has taken a severe toll on families, businesses, and national economies. Against the backdrop of this tragedy were extraordinary efforts and achievements to overcome the crisis and keep us healthy. From the heroism of frontline workers to the ingenuity of vaccine developers and producers, to the durability of infrastructure supply chains, the pandemi...

The American Benefits Council advocates for employer benefit plan sponsors and is dedicated to the achievement of best-in-class solutions that protect and encourage the retirement savings and financial well-being of workers, retirees and families. In our role as a resource on retirement policy issues, we have assembled this collection of data and research from reputable sources to demonstrate the ...

Telemedicine in the Post-COVID-19 World

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 practice in global benefits management. Key issues explored included what companies can do to improve alignment of benefits with organizational strategy and how they can better manage the costs and risks of global benefi...

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.

The report examines the importance of employer-sponsored benefits and the advantages it presents to the American economy. To illustrate the unique and essential value of employer-provided benefits, it also considers what the world might be like without them.

Results from the Council's National Poll, November 5-9, 2017, released in conjunction with the Council's 50th Anniversary Symposium

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,? American Benefits Council president James A. Klein said.

A new report from the American Benefits Institute (the research affiliate of the American Benefits Council), in partnership with Aon Hewitt (the global talent, retirement and health solutions business of Aon plc and a benefits policy advocacy organization) reveals these mounting challenges are continuing to drive the centralization of global benefits management.