Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-2010
Journal Title
Washington University Law Review
ISSN
0043-0862
Abstract
In the United States, retirement income and health insurance are largely provided through private promises made incident to employment. These “benefit promises” are governed by a statute called ERISA, which many healthcare and pension scholars argue is the cause of fundamental problems with our nation’s health and retirement policy. Inevitably, however, they advance narrowly tailored proposals to amend the statute. This occurs because of the widely-held view that reform should leave undisturbed the underlying core of the statute. This Article develops a theory of ERISA designed to illustrate the unavoidable need for structural reform.
First Page
433
Last Page
474
Num Pages
42
Volume Number
88
Issue Number
2
Publisher
Washington University School of Law
Recommended Citation
Brendan S. Maher & Peter K. Stris,
ERISA & Uncertainty,
88
Wash. U. L. Rev.
433
(2010).
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