Lost in all the debate about healthcare reform and the government option is our experience with workers’ compensation. According to Mark Jablonowski, an analyst at Conning Research & Consulting, twenty five percent of all workers compensation in the United States is written by Workers Compensation State Funds even though these state funds only write in 25 states. Read the rest of this entry »
Last week, Whole Foods CEO John Mackey weighed in on the current healthcare reform debate (Wall Street Journal, The Whole Foods Alternative to ObamaCare). Some question whether it was ill advised or not and honestly, that is for his customers, board and shareholders to determine in the end. As a citizen, I am glad he had the guts and took the time to lay out his thoughts persuasively and in detail unlike the loons disrupting the healthcare town hall meetings across the country these past several weeks. Read the rest of this entry »
The current debate on healthcare reform in Congress and around the country is very troubling for me as a man, a father, a husband, a son, a brother, a friend, an American and a human being. While there are many sides of the debate and I do not profess to have any special insight as to the specific problems or even the solutions being discussed, the debate has shown in stark relief that there remain many among us that simply do not care about anyone but themselves. Read the rest of this entry »