"The new health care legislation is a step toward elimination, by slow strangulation, of private health insurance and establishment of government as the 'single payer.'" - George Will, in his weekly newspaper column, Sunday July 11, 2010

Everyone loves to pick on the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and well they...

The WellPoint Inc. annual meeting May 18 in Indianapolis was contentious and dramatic. The first story out was about the collapse of Board member William "Bucky" Bush followed by CEO Angela Braly's sudden adjournment of the meeting while a line of concerned shareholders were still waiting to have their questions...

I first watched Angela Braly perform at the WellPoint Inc. annual shareholders meeting in Indianapolis in May, 2008. I went to the meeting as a stockholder exercising my rights, and I stood and read a litany of bad news the media had reported on the company in the preceding year,...

The modern era of fire as a weapon of war came with jellied gasoline, or napalm, dropped from bombers in the late days of WWII. The bombing of Tokyo created a firestorm that incinerated more people than the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima.

The modern era of corporate shareholder activism was...

Wasichu is the Lakota (Sioux) word for "those who take the fat," the greedy ones. WellPoint/Anthem, the health insurance behemoth born of Blue Cross, is a wasichu corporation.

As the Blue Cross movement grew in the 1930's, one of the foundational standards established in 1937 was "No private investors should...