maintained by an employer ... to the extent that such plan, fund, or program ... is maintained for the purpose of providing for its participants ... medical ... care or benefits_”); see also 29 U.S.C.S. § 1002(1)(B) (Law.Co-op 1992) (including in the definition of employee welfare benefit plans programs providing "any benefit described in section 302(c) of the Labor Management Relations Act”). The referenced section of the Labor Management Relations Act provides for the establishment of Taft-Hartley trusts. See 29 U.S.C.S. § 186(c) (Law.Co-op 1993); Lickteig v. Business Men’s Assurance Co. of Am., 61 F.3d 579, 581 n. 3 (8th Cir.1995). 36 . We recognize that in holding that the statute refers to ERISA plans, we rely heavily on setts, 471 U.S. 724, 105 S.Ct. 2380, 85 L.Ed.2d 728 (1985) (<HOLDING>). 40 . See Metropolitan Life, 471 U.S. at 739,
holding that a termination of an erisa plans benefits must be based upon the plans terms and language holding that a state law requiring benefit plans to include minimum benefits related to erisa plans holding that federal common law of erisa preempts state law in the interpretation of erisa benefit plans holding that a statute relates to erisa plans for the purposes of preemption if it requires the plans to purchase the  benefits specified in the statute when they purchase a certain kind of common insurance policy holding that a statute regulating only hospital rates did not relate to erisa plans merely because it had the net result of increasing insurers and selffunded plans costs of providing benefits