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.