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By Foster Friess
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David Goldhill became health reform advocate after losing his father to a hospital infection.
Atlantic Monthly features David Goldhill’s story, “How American Health Care Killed My Father.” Goldhill’s frustration with the American health care system stems from personal experience of losing his father to an infection acquired in a hospital.
At the core of [...]
Consumers Must Have ‘Skin’ in Health Care Game
September 16th, 2009 · No Comments
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‘Too Big to Fail’ Logic Examined
March 4th, 2009 · No Comments
Some six months after AIG was declared “too big to fail” and received billions of bailout dollars, the free-spending administration of President Barack Obama poured another $30 billion into insurance giant this week. That took place, according to a recent DC Examiner report, after administration officials were encouraged by the company’s loss of nearly $62 [...]
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Owner-Operators Forming New Organization
April 10th, 2008 · No Comments
Dan Little, the Carrollton, Mo.-based trucker generally credited with organizing the nationwide shutdown of independent owner-operators April 1, called me yesterday to let me know he’s at it again, this time working with a small cadre of truckers from around the country to launch a new truck drivers organization, tentatively called Owner-Operators United.
The owner of [...]
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