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Archive for August, 2007

Wolf in wool.

By Justen Deal • Aug 20th, 2007 • Category: Kaiser Permanente

Reuters, last week, decided to rehash stale, old news, in a severely dated story on George Halvorson’s “endorsement” of California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s plan to require every Californian to buy health insurance. Is it a coincidence that the Reuters August 17 press release story coincided so perfectly with the August 17 release of George [...]



You don’t know me.

By Justen Deal • Aug 20th, 2007 • Category: America, politics

Because if you did, you wouldn’t be wondering why on Earth I have a photograph of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on my blog.
You see, long ago, this was my blog, about me, and my relatively boring life. Then, one day, I stumbled upon some documents that eventually convinced me that Kaiser Permanente, the [...]



Kaiser Permanente and the art of funny money.

By Justen Deal • Aug 6th, 2007 • Category: Kaiser Permanente, business, governance

On Friday, the non-profit Kaiser Foundation Health Plan reported that its profit for the first half of the year was over $1.9 billion. For the first time in years, the organization also reported its figures on an operating income basis, a more helpful measure of ongoing performance, rather than net income (which happens to [...]