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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Say @laura_s_richman and @barakrichman.bsky.social in #HLC2026 in @nusl.bsky.social : look beyond traditional health providers. E.g. CA - team of paramedics. Hot spotting analysis. Where do problems emanate from, how to target that?

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The Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics @jlme-journal.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

New open-access on FirstView: "ERISA and the Failure of Employers to Perform Their Fiduciary Duties: Evidence from a Survey of Health Plan Administrators" by @barakrichman.bsky.social , Amy Monahan, Jeffrey Pfeffer, and Sara Singer. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

ERISA and the Failure of Employers to Perform Their Fiduciary Duties:
Evidence from a Survey of Health Plan Administrators
Barak Richman1,2 , Amy Monahan3, Jeffrey Pfeffer4 and Sara Singer2
1School of Law, The George Washington University, United States; 2Stanford School of Medicine, Clinical Excellence Research Center, United States; 3University of
Minnesota Law School, United States and 4Stanford Graduate School of Business, United States
Abstract
Employers purchase health benefits for more than 60% of the nonelderly population, making employers both important custodians of
employee well-being and important actors in the health care ecosystem. Because employers typically have unilateral control over health and
retirement benefits, the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), enacted in 1974, imposes fiduciary obligations on
employers when they manage or administer benefits. We provide evidence, from a novel survey of respondents who administer or oversee
health benefits for their companies, that many employers appear to neglect even the most basic of their fiduciary obligations to their employees.
This neglect may help explain the poor performance of employer plans in controlling costs and providing access to health care, and it suggests
that many employers may be vulnerable to liability from ERISA lawsuits.
Keywords: erisa; employer-sponsored insurance; employer fiduciaries; employer health plans; group health plans

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Pretty impressive work by the Republican House to pass a budget bill that both takes health insurance away from 10.9 million people AND increases the national debt by 2.4 trillion dollars. Today’s GOP: less health and more debt!

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Barak Richman @barakrichman.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

A review that offers a window into the current moment. And it contains this gem: “No one, I suspect, can fully process the cavalcade of absurdities and atrocities that make up each day’s news cycle. But art can help.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/o...

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Opinion | From the Creator of ‘Succession,’ a Delicious Satire of the Tech Right

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Barak Richman @barakrichman.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Great article but omitted two things: Amy is an amazing coauthor and a deeply insightful scholar.

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Barak Richman @barakrichman.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

North Carolina is so fortunate to have @rosehoban.bsky.social Really important reporting.

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