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May 22, 2013
There are two schools of thought about how to analyze a benefits system. The first is to look at its overall function and how the various parts interrelate. The analysis is concerned generating revenues to match benefits paid, so there is sustainability in the balance of inputs and outputs. The other (increasingly common) approach is [...]
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April 26, 2013
It has been an ugly two weeks. The Boston bombing horror cost my son’s triathlon coach a broken leg, broken ankle and a severed Achilles tendon. The coach’s sister suffered even worse injuries to her legs and feet resulting in an amputation of one leg at the knee because they waited near the finish line [...]
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April 18, 2013
Maybe the Michigan auto insurance law was “essential” when it became law, but in the last four decades it has become luxurious compared to all other states. Gov. Rick Snyder and insurance committee chairs Sen. Joe Hune, R-Hamburg Township, and Rep. Pete Lund, R-Shelby Township, should be applauded for aiming at reasonable reform as the [...]
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April 5, 2013
As we prepare to celebrate the conclusion of the most popular national sports tournament in this country, the Intelligent Community Forum has picked my hometown, Columbus, Ohio, as one of seven cities in the world that will vie for the title of Intelligent Community of the Year in 2013. It seems to me that just [...]
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March 25, 2013
I was in North Carolina last week. North Carolina is, I believe the only state in the union where the Monday after Easter is a state holiday to allow people to celebrate the twin religious ceremonies of the Christian Easter and the state high school basketball championships. As a committed basketball state, and since one [...]
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March 15, 2013
The Conservative Political Action Conference is clearly not as energized as last year, due largely to the intervening national election, which many of these folks had thought would end the reign of terror for conservatives by restaffing the White House and executive branch. There are two main classes of politically aware folks that predominate these [...]
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March 8, 2013
The federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was passed to address both the cost of medical treatment through insurance and the fact that many people didn’t have coverage. The law is such a massive change in the health insurance landscape that it is taking several years to make it happen. The structure is slowly [...]
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March 1, 2013
Those who are following the great sequestration drama might get the impression that, while this kind of federal budget management is not ideal, at least something will be done to begin to straighten out Washington’s mess. Actually, this is far from the truth. The 2013 budget still spends more than last year’s; there are no [...]
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February 21, 2013
Most of the attempts to fix Michigan’s long-time Essential Insurance Act have ended as spectacularly as the meteor which exploded over the Ural Mountains town of Chelyabinsk a few days ago, injuring over a thousand stunned residents of central Russia. A huge proportion of all accident injuries and fatalities are suffered by people driving or [...]
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February 19, 2013
This coming Sunday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will award its annual Oscars, with Steven Spielberg’s acclaimed “Lincoln” — a look at the 16th president’s work to abolish slavery with the Emancipation Proclamation and his efforts to get the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution enacted –- up for several awards. With [...]
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