The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology and the AAMC have issued a joint statement encouraging universities and other training institutions to provide all postdoctoral researchers access to the same health benefits. In order to continue to recruit and retain new investigators, FASEB and AAMC believe it is critical that postdoctoral researchers have access to affordable health benefits. According to the statement, "many institutions have found it difficult to provide the same health benefits to all postdocs because of their differential classification as employees or non-employees." The current system therefore can create inequity among postdocs within and across institutions. In addition, the statement calls for funding agencies to "provide non-employee postdocs with the financial resources to purchase comprehensive health benefits packages that are on par with those offered to employee postdocs." For more information, please visit http://www.aamc.org/advocacy/library/research/testimony/2006/101706.pdf .