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Business or Politics?  People ask!  Here’s why we loudly say “YES” to both.

It’s common wisdom for a company to stay far away from politics, but we certainly don’t. Three years ago on Quora.com (a Q&A forum we follow and highly recommend) someone posed the question “I work in financial services. Can I … Continue reading

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Health Notes- We’re so sorry, but you just aren’t worth curing

You remember Goldman Sachs… they’re the multibillion dollar investment bank we taxpayers cured with a $10 billion injection during the financial crisis they helped cause.  That was a teachable moment, but they apparently didn’t learn the lesson. In a recent … Continue reading

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We sang the Healthcare Blues… AND LOVED IT!

Report back from the 6th Annual Inner City Blues Fest! We spent the weekend in an intimate club filled with around 800 of our closest friends, all dressed to kill, listening to the rumbling growl of Norman Sylvester, the glistening … Continue reading

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Don’t just sing the Healthcare Blues… FIX THEM!

 The Inner City Blues Fest is back for its 6th dynamite year! Imagine yourself enjoying an excellent dinner in an intimate club filled with around 800 of your closest friends…  all dressed to kill.  The stage lights flare as the … Continue reading

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It’s time to euthanize for-profit health care!

Greetings! Once upon a time you could pay your doctor with chickens, but you always get what you pay for.  Costs grew with technology until individual fee-for-service medical care became too expensive.  Health insurance spread those costs to make health … Continue reading

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Should Business and Politics Mix?

One of our clients didn’t think so, but here’s Tom’s view… When a client recently asked about our “#NotNormal-RESIST!” bumper stickers, we told her they “were in protest of the new administrations irregular behaviour”.  It didn’t sit well.  “Politics has … Continue reading

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A Glimpse Into The Pit

Follow us on a tour of the infamous Health Care Exchanges (Update 9/24-  ObamaCare goes live in Oregon on Oct 1.  If you want a look at Oregon’s exchanges, go to CoverOregon.org.) One of the central debates of Obamacare was … Continue reading

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