From the Chairman
by Michael Gregory, MD, Apogee CEO
Who Am I?
April 30, 2010
Who are you? I remember being asked this question by someone for whom I have tremendous respect. Throughout high school, college, and medical school, I can’t remember being asked a tougher question. As someone who trusts me with the reigns of Apogee, you, more than anyone, deserve an answer to this question. So here goes....
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January 22, 2010
Sometime before Christmas last year, I read an article that told the story of a man who had played Santa Claus for many years at the local shopping mall. He was a real estate appraiser by trade but really enjoyed the role he played during this very festive time of year. For years, he had warned children sitting upon his lap that if they weren’t good little boys and girls, Santa would bring them shoes instead of toys. Then one day this holiday season, he found himself speechless. One child did, in fact, ask for shoes for Christmas, the next asked for her dad to find a job, and another wanted school supplies for the coming semester. Not in all his years as a mall Santa had he ever heard requests like these.
Read entire articleI’m from the Government, and I am here to help...
September 18, 2009
I’m from the Government, and I am here to help... If that phrase doesn’t strike fear into your soul, I am willing to bet that you have not dealt with our government on any significant level. I am the first to say our health care system needs fixing. However, I think it is a bad idea to throw the baby out with the bath water by implementing a wholesale remake of one of the most complicated and intensely personal businesses on the planet. Too strong of a statement? Perhaps. But consider this; we have had Medicare for 48 years. Looking forward, it is a financial disaster that makes the current financial crisis look like a rounding error. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the gap between Medicare income and promised payments is $37 TRILLION dollars over the next 75 years. Over the past 50 years, Presidents and Congresses from both parties have overseen Medicare with alarmingly similar results.
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