Year after year, employers demand health benefit cuts in contract talks, or impose them unilaterally where there is no union. In a 2008 survey, the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 40 percent of firms that offer insurance said they President-elect Obama, during the campaign you pledged to build a health care system in which Americans can be as-sured of access to affordable health insurance. Jonathan Gruber says health care reform should be part of a recovery package: Medicine for the Job Market, by Jonathan Gruber, Commentary, NY Times: A central feature of Barack Obamas presidential campaign was an aggressive plan to Americas health insurance plans desperately want a seat at the table of reform. Today, during a press conference at the National Press Club, which the Wonk Room attended, Karen Ignagni the CEO of AHIP unveiled the industrys new Is his status all a smoke screen to throw off Alabama in SEC title game? [EMBED1] Last week, President-elect Barack Obama's transition team asked people to share their ideas about how to improve health care On Wednesday, December 17, join reproductive health experts Marilyn Keefe of the National Partnership for Women & Families, William Smith of SIECUS, Heather Boonstra of Guttmacher Institute, Cristina Page of BirthControlWatch.org, Development of a joint inpatient electronic health records system will satisfy almost all the requirements of the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments, according to a long sequestered report obtained by Nextgov.