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Don’t know quite what to say about this report: The nation’s tab for health care — already the highest per person in the industrialized world — could hit $3.6 trillion by 2014, or nearly 19 percent of the entire U.S. economy, up from 15.4 percent now, a sobering government projection says. Growth in health-care spending will outpace economic growth through ...

Yesterday I joined Cherie Porter (Dir. E-Revenue, NHO) and Allan Nance (President, Mansell Group) to present several sessions on e-tools/e-communications. My section of the presentation was to discuss the online best practices developed and produced by the Eastern Division — Team ACS and Community Fundraising Pages (CFP).  The key takeaway from my section was that the core best practice, evident ...

Lot’s of neat stuff today. Our opening session featured some of the Society’s heavy hitters including Rob Mitchell, Donella Wilson, Terri Music and Molly Daniels. I only got to stay for Rob’s and Donella’s talks. They covered some great points about telling our story. Until Rob gave his talk I never knew that the Society was the number 2 charity ...

I attended a San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Biotechnology Forum today. It was an overflow crowd of people wanting to hear how the expansion of biotech at Mission Bay will bring business to the city. They went away assured it will. They project that during the next 10 years life science employment in the city will increase from 35,000 jobs ...