The HHS Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services shares oversight over employer-sponsored health benefits with the U.S. Treasury Department's Internal Revenue Service and the U.S. Labor Department's Employee Benefits Security Administration.

Kennedy has not asked specifically about ideas for improving group health regulations or employee benefits regulations.

But he has asked for commenters' thoughts about "regulations that impose significant costs upon private parties that are not outweighed by public benefits" and "regulations that impose undue burdens on small business and impede private enterprise and entrepreneurship."

Comments are due July 14.

CMS has put out a separate request for ideas about how to improve the U.S. health technology ecosystem. Comments will be due 30 days after May 16, the official request publication date.

In April the Anticompetitive Regulations Task Force at the U.S. Justice Department put out a request for ideas about how to make the U.S. health care system more competitive. Replies to that request are due May 26.

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At press time, the task force had received 68 comments. Most come from home health care providers, but one comes from an unnamed individual in Texas who says employers still have a difficult time getting health care claims and utilization data from insurance carriers, even though employers with self-insured health plans already get that kind of data.