January 2017

Are Layoffs A Sign Of Good Or Bad Management? By Leonard Zwelling http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/article/MD-Anderson-set-to-announce-layoffs-today-10837056.php http://abc13.com/news/watch-live-md-anderson-announces-layoffs/1687649/ http://inside3.mdanderson.org/streams/FullVideoPlayer.cfm?mediaID=9AB90015-DA18-407E-B23B-3DBACA6A360D http://www.click2houston.com/news/md-anderson-to-address-layoff-announcement-thursday http://abc13.com/business/md-anderson-cancer-center-to-cut-800-900-jobs/1687649/ Isn’t that the essential question? When any organization stops turning a profit, even a non-profit, that’s a sure sign that those in charge of that organization are either spending too much, not bringing in enough, or both. At […]

Health Care Reform And MD Anderson: Can The ACA Explain Some Of The Financial Problem? By Leonard Zwelling Abby Goodnough and Robert Pear authored this long feature in the NY Times on January 3 that describes the lasting effects of the Affordable Care Act. These are the effects that even the GOP pledge to repeal

The Lesson Of Putin’s Inaction: Memo To The MD Anderson Faculty By Leonard Zwelling Finally, after multiple examples of Russian cyberwar incursions into America’s infrastructure and political processes, President Obama acted on December 29. He threw out some Russian officials, most of whom were probably spies, and closed down two facilities that harbored Russian agents.