A new health benefits coalition that represents employers, pharmacy benefit managers and health plans is offering up some criteria it believes will make it easier to administer an essential health benefits package, which is required by health reform.

Affordability is paramount, the coalition says.

The Institute of Medicine released last Thursday a framework for a basic benefits package that is predicted to become the nation's benchmark for health insurance over time, according to the Associated Press. [See Feds to design health care for the masses]

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