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State-of-play: the life of a health care lobbyist

Jeri Kubicki Jeri Kubicki, one of the primary health care lobbyists at the National Association of Manufacturers, remembers the frantic days in July when a committee in the U.S. House suddenly moved to mark up the main health care overhaul bill. For Kubicki and her colleagues, it meant several long days and late nights of poring over provisions, developing summaries and formulating lobbying strategies. “We didn’t get a lot of sleep around here,” said Kubicki, whose title is vice president of human resources policy.Such is the life of a public affairs specialist like Kubicki as Congress juggles multiple health care proposals and association members clamor for… Read More