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  • The Business Model of Medicare Advantage

    The Commonwealth Fund (commonwealthfund.com) in May 2009 found that over the past six years the Federal government paid a greater amount for Medicare Advantage products than they would have spent in traditional fee-for-service Medicare payments.  Their research notes in 2009 a “13% greater (payout) than the corresponding costs in traditional Medicare.”     The original…

  • Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Bill Johnson

    What do these names have in common?  Over the weekend, an interesting historical fact was uncovered.  The original American bloggers were people like Franklin and Paine.  “The Pennsylvania Gazette” was one of several newspapers of the day owned by Franklin.  In it, a page would be kept blank at the conclusion of the publication for…

  • Everything old is new again

    Everything old is new again is a phrase that I grew up with.  Clothing, politics, movies, music — one of the joys of being the parent of a 26 and 25 year old is the ability to see the world through the eyes of the boys when they were infants, as they became teenagers, and…