NACS Asks Congress to Repeal Automatic Enrollment Mandate

NACS, along with 86 retailers and associations, sent a letter to lawmakers, urging them to repeal the automatic enrollment provision of Obamacare.

May 10, 2013

ARLINGTON, VA – NACS joined 86 retailers, employers and state and national business trade associations in asking Congress to support legislation, authored by Reps. Richard Hudson and Robert Pittenger, that seeks to repeal the automatic enrollment provision under the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). Hudson and Pittenger are co-sponsors of the Auto Enroll Repeal Act, H.R. 1254.

Under the automatic enrollment provision, employers with 200 or more employees must automatically enroll an employee in a health coverage plan if the employee does not voluntarily choose one.

“The automatic enrollment may create additional confusion for our employees in an already complex benefit area, and could result in unnecessary hardship if they find themselves automatically enrolled in a plan in which they do not wish to participate,” the letter states. “In addition, the automatic enrollment requirement is redundant, expensive and unnecessarily burdensome for employers without increasing employees’ access to coverage.” 

NACS supports the repeal of the automatic enrollment provision and the introduction of H.R. 1254. “Now is the time to address the challenges employees and employers face with the automatic enrollment requirements,” the letter concludes.

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