I was in a meeting the other day when someone said - mostly in exasperation - ”Everyone’s for affordable health care for everyone, but no one cares very much about dealing with the cost of health care.”  I’m sure that truer words have been spoken, but I can’t think of any off the top of my head.  It’s […]

A few weeks ago, the Baker family did something we’d never done before. We took a two-week vacation, and we went to France. While there are many fun places to visit in the U.S., my wife and I decided a couple of years ago that before our oldest went off to college, we thought the kids should see […]

Who runs the biggest HMO in the world? Kaiser Permanente? Wellpoint? United HealthCare? Nope, nope, and guess again. The answer is — the National Health Service in Britain. This is one of the big “ah-ha’s” I picked up during my time with the folks from England. There’s only one route to a specialist in England […]