Says Wal-Mart boss Lee Scott: “Our goal should be for every man, woman and child in this country to have health insurance. The $2 trillion question, literally, is how do we get there?” You can get his whole speech here, so no point in running more quotes from it. Scott also announced here at the [...]
Now I’m listening to Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden do a Q&A here at the World Health Care Congress in D.C. “The employer-based health system is melting like a popsicle on a summer sidewalk,” he says. Wyden unveiled his plan for universal health insurance in December, and he feels like the wind is at his back. [...]
I just got finished moderating a panel at the World Healthcare Congress in Washington, featuring Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Liveris, GE Healthcare CEO Joe Hogan, and futurist/consultant/Scotsman Ian Morrison. A major conclusion was that we should all be more like Australians (Liveris is a native of Darwin; Morrison has spent a lot of time Down [...]
Despite the best efforts of the Financial Times and just about everybody who works at the World Bank, Paul Wolfowitz is still in charge of the global lending (and ostensibly poverty-fighting) institution. He’s also hired Bob Bennett (Bill Clinton’s lawyer back in the day) to joust on his behalf and has promised, in the helpful [...]
