Last week, the Partnership for Employer-Sponsored Coverage (P4ESC) filed a comment letter with Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Chair Patty Murray (D-WA) and House Energy and Commerce Chair Frank Pallone (D-NJ) under their Request for Information on the design and development of public option legislation.

In the letter, P4ESC expressed concerns about the impacts of a public insurance plan competing against private, market-based insurance plans on healthcare.gov. Specifically, the coalition noted that both the employee opt-in or employer-choice models would disrupt the risk pool and threaten plan availability and affordability.

P4ESC noted “[e]mployers support Congress and the Administration working in a bipartisan manner to address on-going cost and access issues in our nation’s health care system. Employers know that real, meaningful improvements can be made without disrupting and/or severely impacting the market-based, employer-sponsored health coverage system that serves over 181 million hardworking Americans and their families.”

The full letter is available HERE.