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If Kaiser Permanente was a for-profit, publicly traded company, it would come in at number 63, by revenue, on the 2007 Fortune 500 listing, just ahead of The Walt Disney Company.
In fact, as a not-for-profit organization, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals raked in considerably more profit (on a net income basis) last [...]

Today, the Charleston Gazette is printing, on their front page, a story based on an interview I did with Tara Tuckwiller, along with a reprint of Rhonda Rundle’s Wall Street Journal article. From the Gazette article:
In a telephone interview with the Gazette Wednesday from his home in Los Angeles, Deal said he still thinks [...]

Page one of today’s Wall Street Journal has an article on the email I sent on November 3, along with a look at the events leading up to and following it.
This story was a personal struggle for me. When other reporters called, I never volunteered or confirmed my personal situation (not even my age) [...]

Juanita Millender-McDonald passed away early this morning. She was only 68. She has represented Los Angeles (South Central, as well as Long Beach) in the House for over a decade, and was re-elected just in November with over 80% of the vote. She was recently diagnosed with cancer, and only days ago [...]

It’s been almost two years since
I last posted a review of companies I admire or avoid (and those in between, companies that are redeemed or endangered). I didn’t mention Yahoo! in that listing, but things have gone from bad to worse for the company that was once nearly synonymous with the success and [...]

I haven’t posted much about myself or my feelings in some time. But that’s what my blog was about before November, and I need it to be that again, at least today.
I was in New York yesterday when I heard about what happened at Virginia Tech. I made it back to Los Angeles [...]

George Halvorson today announced that Jenny Ming has been appointed to the Boards of Directors for Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. and Kaiser Foundation Hospitals. Ms. Ming effectively replaces Robert Ridgley, who left the Board early last year before the end of his term. Mr. Ridgley had been chair of both the Board’s [...]