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Publication Date: March 2003
Publisher: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service
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Research Area: Health
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Abstract:
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA, P.L. 93-406) places the regulation of employee benefit plans (including health plans) primarily under federal jurisdiction for about 131 million people.