Updated : Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:53:57 +0100
The entry builds on my last, “Opening Ideas” (10/20/2009), in which I laid out the certain elements of the competing ideological frameworks on the Right and Left in American politics. My general thesis is that these competing frameworks are stifling innovation. Today, I look more deeply into the similarities and the key differences between the worldviews advanced by each party, in an effort to explore ways to transcend the battle.
The Right and the Left ShMore
Author : David Castro
Publ.Date : Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:13:46 +0100
Toyota has long been the gold standard among business world thought-leaders for how it has managed to exemplify a seemingly impossible collection of achievements: optimal efficiency, optimal quality, and optimal profit. As it turns out, Toyota's seemingly impossible success may be turning out to have been actually impossible. Without commenting too deeply on the issue, because I don't know enough about it to come to any reasonable conclusions, it appears as though something in theirMore
Author : Caroline Ridgway
Publ.Date : Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:12:42 +0100
I was taken aback at how difficult it was to gain access to primary health care when I moved to the United States in 2005. Even in the self-described "Health Care City" of New Brunswick, NJ-- home to Johnson & Johnson's headquarters, the Robert Wood Johnson Hospital system & St. Peter's University Hospital-- booking time with a medical doctor in a pinch was always a challenge. Parents who've needed a prescription on a weekend, or desperately wanted to ensure thaMore
Author : Mikaela Levons
Publ.Date : Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:05:06 +0100
So reports the Kauffman Entrepreneurial Index, which found that Philadelphia trailed the other 15 largest metropolitan areas in individuals starting new businesses. The Index results, cited in this April, 2009 article by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, include the following alarming conclusions:
The states with the lowest entrepreneurial activity rates were Pennsylvania, Missouri, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Iowa and Ohio.
Among the United States' fifteen largest metropolitan stMore
Author : Alex Lehr O'Connell
Publ.Date : Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:06:18 +0100
Independence Blue Cross announced this Fall that they are discontinuing their Special Needs Plans for persons who are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid and their low-fee plan for other low-income Medicare beneficiaries. Why? They say the reimbursement rates from Medicare are not sufficient to provide case management, managed care, prescription drugs and additional services. As many as 40,000 individuals in Southeastern Pennsylvania are affected by this and we juMore
Author : Diane Menio
Publ.Date : Mon, 12 Oct 2009 22:00:34 +0100
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