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• Info & Miss Info

  Bunch of proxy letters arrived -- stuff you get with your investments that ask you to mark big X's in boxes, electing directors you've never heard of and approving ballot measures that may boost or milk your money. But, the background, which is always Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 11, 2009 9:37 AM by jtaylor | 0 Comments Filed under: Kaiser Family Foundation, health care reform, Community Regional Medical Center, safety-net hospitals

• Calvin and Hobbes were (are) right!

  I gave a two-word political update the other day to the leadership team at Clovis Community Medical Center. Sacramento -- "Disarray." DC -- "Uncertainty." Every year, we go through this budget meltdown that is aorta of California politics. Call it "bad Read More... Posted Monday, June 29, 2009 12:29 PM by jtaylor | 0 Comments Filed under: Kaiser Family Foundation, health care reform, Sacramento, Calvin and Hobbes

• We hide our pain way too well

  Let's not forget yet another casualty of the Wall Street meltdown: health care reform. Sacramento bureaucrats were swept up in (or swept away by) Gov. Schwarzenegger's epic health-reform concepts earlier this year, which dissolved in the multi-billion-dollar Read More... Posted Friday, September 26, 2008 7:25 AM by jtaylor | 0 Comments Filed under: Kaiser Family Foundation, Wall Street bailout, Drew Altman, John Cougar Mellencamp

• Lists are high on my to-do (list)

  List-making, it's a life preserver for those suffering from CRS ("can't remember stuff"). Lists are especially helpful in health care. However, here are high and low points. I'm on a bunch of really nifty listserves. One comes from kaisernetwork.org , Read More... Posted Friday, September 21, 2007 1:16 PM by jtaylor | 0 Comments Filed under: AARP, Modern Healthcare, Kaiser Family Foundation, lists