Greetings and salutations from my new, palatial offices in the Business Times Tower. I’m writing you as I fend off the hordes of new clients breaking my door down to do business with me, all because I’m lucky enough to be located on those miracle miles of monetary momentum: University Boulevard. Oh, wait. I’m dreaming. […]
My last column on my experience with the health care system in our valley garnered more than the normal number of responses, and a couple of them caught my attention. They also show the disparate ways people want the issue addressed. For this column, I’ll offer a general replay to the first. And if Congress […]
As my friends know — and some of my online friends and associates know all too well — this has been a particularly tough year for me as all things medical are related. Because of that fact and to go along with my ongoing commentary about health care and insurance, I thought I’d draw on […]
In my last column, I explained how the market reacted to get more people into the health care market. This included ways through groups and associations to create health maintenance organizations that gave more people access to hospitals and doctors — the Blue Cross/Blue Shield type of organizations. I also recounted how big insurance began […]
In my last column, we ended with government slipping its nose into the insurance tent under the guise of “committees” and “commissions” on how to best manage the solutions hospitals, doctors and other providers came up with to attract customers and receive payments for services that came as a result of the Great Depression. (Please […]
At the end of my last column I mentioned a big factor in the growth of health insurance in the United States was a result of wage and price controls set by the federal government during the Great Depression. While other factors existed, something I didn’t note previously was the fact health insurance in one […]
But what the heck, it’s what I do. And since I’m doing it, it might take several installments to get through this topic. To accomplish what’s in the headline, why not address health care issues in this country? After all, if our former president can’t stop talking about it, why should we? I know Barack […]
This past week there were rallies across the country demanding that President Donald Trump reveal his tax returns. Not that it matters to me, but I guess Trump said he would once he was assured his audit was finalized to placate the unhinged who’re demanding he release the returns to bolster their hopes of impeachment […]
Then again. I’m betting we’ll get another roundabout. By the time you read this, we’ll know whether or not Grand Junction will get a new events center and also just how much money our local leaders will have to fix streets. If I had my guess, there’ll be no events center and more money for […]
That’s by far the most frequent reason I keep hearing as to why everyone in the city should vote no on the new events center in Grand Junction: Where, for the love of all monoliths, will everyone park? Let’s forget for the moment this argument indicates the hassle of parking would mean whatever event at […]