Enrollment for purchasing 2017 health insurance on public exchanges began November 1st. Headlines for this fourth enrollment period include: 22% average price increases; major health insurers dropping coverage; and some exchanges only a single insurer offering health plans.

While Obamacare reels, its Healthcare.gov website functions smoothly. That was not true three years ago when the Obama administration launched HealthCare.gov. Curious consumers overwhelmed the website. It crashed repeatedly, catastrophically and almost died.

Co-authored with James Moloney and Carsten Beith

There's a battle outside and it's ragin'
It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'!

Organizations fail or decline more frequently because of what they did not do than because of what they did.                                                            

Manufacturing built America. The iconic automotive industry epitomizes this organic relationship between industrial strength and economic growth. Since the early days of Ford and General Motors, car-makers have followed a clear playbook: design an appealing product, manufacture efficiently, market aggressively, and sell units at high volume.

The Cubs just finished the 2016 regular season with 103 wins and baseball’s best record by a mile. They have spectacular pitching, powerhouse hitting and solid defense. Las Vegas odds-makers have established the Cubs as runaway favorites to win this year’s world series. The Cubs – baseball’s perennial losers! Chicago sports fans haven’t been this excited since Michael Jordan suited up for the Bulls.
 

There is an ongoing water crisis in Nepal’s urban areas, and it is mainly man-made. From 2000 to 2012, Nepal’s urban population with access to improved water source suffered a continuous and outstanding drop from 94.2 percent to 90.3 percent.

There is an ongoing water crisis in Nepal’s urban areas, and it is mainly man-made. From 2000 to 2012, Nepal’s urban population with access to improved water source suffered a continuous and outstanding drop from 94.2 percent to 90.3 percent.

Earlier this month, Ford CEO Mark Fields made two head-scratching announcements. Ford acquired San Francisco-based Chariot, a popular crowd-sourced shuttle-van service that uses algorithms to adjust routes and increase transit efficiency. The company simultaneously announced a partnership with Motivate, the nation’s largest bikeshare company, to implement a 10-fold expansion of the Bay area’s bikeshare program under the “Ford GoBike” banner.
 

It was hard not to feel sorry for Mylan CEO Heather Bresch as she sat for an extended CNBC interview on the morning of August 25th. Clearly on the hot seat, Bresch tried to explain Mylan’s stratospheric EpiPen price increases. Despite limited product improvement, the retail price for EpiPen 2-Pak®has skyrocketed from $94 in 2007 when Mylan acquired the product to $608 today, a 550% increase.
 

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars but in ourselves.” [1]  ~William Shakespeare