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• Z-Talks: A Worldwide Lens: Global Healthcare and U.S. Reform
  12/17/2009 While December brings colder weather and shorter days, the healthcare debate is heating up and pressing legislators into late-night and weekend sessions. The details are mind-numbing. Competing House and Senate bills are 2,000 pages apiece and despite early hope for cooperation, partisan brinksmanship has defined the legislative process.
• Brett Whysel featured in HFMA Magazine
  12/1/2009 - HFMFor health systems today, ample liquidity means “never having to say you’re sorry” to your creditors, your board, or your community. Across the country, executives are asking, “When will things return to normal?” My answer: “Manage your liquidity as if this were the ‘new normal.’”
• Z-Talks: Bearing the Burden, Lessons Learned. Healthcare Capital Finance: One Year Later
  11/13/2009 After his stunning victory at Inchon in September 1950, General Douglas MacArthur made an ill-advised push to win the Korean War by Christmas. He sent his forces north to the Yalu River on the Chinese border to "close the vise" on the North Korean army. MacArthur's attack provoked the Chinese to send 300,000 troops across the Yalu. This massive force routed McArthur's Army and threatened "the complete destruction" of his command. Secretary of State Dean Acheson was at the storm's center in Washington, D.C., resisting extreme Congressional and military pressure to withdraw from the Korean peninsula. Autumn 1950 was a time of profound questions that demanded thoughtful answers.
• Ziegler Announces Successful Closing of Veterans Development, LLC Transaction
  11/12/2009 - Ziegler NewsAs part of the Capital Asset Realignment for Enhanced Service (CARES), a blueprint for modernization of our U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Ziegler...

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