Employers are clear about the problems they want benefits to address, with one-third wanting to improve employee wellbeing and 30% wanting to provide competitive benefits packages.

The initial focus is on GLP-1 medications, a category that has seen significant demand but variable insurance coverage.

Although small businesses employ more than 40 million people in the United States, their workers historically have been far less likely than those at larger firms to have access to retirement plans.

"You've got to think of your hospital as a startup and your first doctors as your first employees or your partners," Mark Cuban said during a recent interview on the Healthcare Bridge podcast.

The defendants used "unfair, deceptive and unlawful" business practices to conduct a text message campaign last year against proposed legislation that would regulate PBMs, one lawsuit alleged.

Stifel failed to remove two poorly performing funds from the plan, according to the complaint, which was filed on behalf of more than 10,000 participants.

Three-quarters of working parents say they know people who are leaving the workforce because of child care challenges.

The sweeping complaint includes pharmacy benefit managers Express Scripts, Evernorth, CVS Caremark and Optum Rx; insulin manufacturers Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk and Sanofi; and group purchasing organizations.