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Getting along in a former backwater town

Washington is a perfect blend of Northern hospitality and Southern efficiency. - John F. KennedyBy Ken Feltman, Radnor Inc. The world has a crisis and Washington is at the center of efforts to resolve it. Naturally, people from all over are descending upon Washington to plead their case. Wherever they come from, the visitors are very American in one respect: They want Washington to do things the way they do them back home in, say, Zurich or Beijing. Whether these seekers of advantage are ...
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Will Obama escape Chicago corruption?

  Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood. - Daniel Burnhamby Ken Feltman, Radnor Inc. Daniel Burnham was the architect and urban planner who supervised the design and building of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893. That grand and graceful exposition set the tone for future fairs and for today's Chicago. Burnham was the architect of Chicago's lakefront parks, which stretch for miles along Lake Michigan, a public treasure imitated but not yet duplicated. His ...
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Healthcare: Generational warfare coming?

by Ken Feltman, Radnor Inc. The law of unintended consequences pushes us ceaselessly through the years, permitting no pause for perspective. - Richard SchickelSecond of a series. A battle with a PPO over a referral to a specialist. Zooming cost increases at an HMO. Inexplicable denials of coverage. These common frustrations have more and more Americans ready to turn healthcare over to Uncle Sam. The healthcare providers and insurance companies are doing a poor job of satisfying the public. ...
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Healthcare Reform: A Popular model for Failure?

By Ken Feltman of Radnor Inc.A few shrewd observers of the Obama White House have reached a conclusion: We will and will not have healthcare reform. In other words, a reform bill will pass and the president will sign it with great fanfare. What will that bill look like? Either it will be watered down, passed just to allow President Obama and Democrats to check off a campaign promise but reforming little that really needs reforming - or the bill will be "rahmed" through the Congress, with ...
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