More and more employers are looking to provide health insurance to contractors, franchisees, agents, and employees of other inadequately related employers under a single umbrella. They continue to bump into a near 50-year-old barrier – multiple employer welfare arrangement (MEWA) rules. Through many a night these rules have left Ed sobbing, but a federal trial court in Texas might have just blown a gaping hole in the MEWA barrier.

• Why is Priya “that without which there is nothing?” (You think these guys could do it alone?)
• What is a MEWA and where are we likely to find them in the real world?
• Who really cares about MEWAs, and why? Who regulates them?
• Do self-insured and fully insured MEWAs pose different problems?
• So how exactly can groups get around the MEWA rules? And why are we talking about Judge Reed O’Connor again?
• Is his recent federal trial court decision precedent? Could there be an appeal?