Last week I had lunch with a room full of Texas brokers in Fort Worth. I had a blast.

UnitedHealthcare started it. Aetna and Humana soon followed. Wellpoints waffling, holding out for the Supreme Court ruling.

Here we go again. In an event about as frequent as a bipartisan vote, employers are apparently on the same page as their employees.

Weve been hearing for a while how employer-based health plans are an endangered species. And it appears that beeline to extinction is accelerating. Maybe.

The headline that jumped off my iPad this morning was all I needed to see: Is beer in the workplace an employee benefit? I jumped to my feet with my hands in the air like I was back in church.

As the average U.S. weight rises, so do the costs of obesity.

Maybe Im getting ahead of myself but maybe were actually becoming better health care consumers.

“Danny just does it the right way,” says one long time industry player of one of our early cover subjects, Danny Talley. “It could be…