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Throughout my varied professional career, I have always been the consummate storyteller. Whether in front of a college classroom, consulting with corporate executives, persuading a learned judge or a panel of arbitrators, or testifying before a congressional hearing, my ability to weave my thoughts and ideas into a convincing tapestry of words has been one of my professional strengths. Now retired from my multi-faceted career, I have turned my creative talents to that which I love best -- writing. Drawing on my vast experience, I now hope to enthrall my readers with stories filled with intriguing characters and exciting action. When not writing, my wife and I enjoy gardening, singing and cooking.

Friday, August 11, 2006

Pocket change

Life is cheap! According to California State officials, Kaiser Permanente, the nation's largest health maintenance organization, will pay a $2 million fine and give $3 million to an organ donor program because of mismanagement of a kidney transplant center. How many of the 100 or so who died at Kaiser centers while waiting for a kidney would be alive today if it weren't for the "mismanagement." Since when did "mismanagement" become a euphanism for "murder."

Until we hold health insurance companies to the same standards as others whose callous indifference to human life causes suffering and death, we soon will find it safer to walk the streets of the inner city than to enter a hospital.

It is time to treat them as the criminals they really are. $5 million is pocket change. A small price to pay for the profits they reap. Send them to prison where they belong!

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