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By Jeff Nolan on March 18, 2010
The fundamental challenge the health insurance, or any insurance business for that matter, faces is how to blend risk pools so that the customers who consume few services pay for those who consume many services.
In other words, my premiums will go down because healthy young people who currently get by without insurance will [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged Health, Health care, Health insurance, Insurance, Public health insurance option, Whole Foods
By Jeff Nolan on March 12, 2010
I just spent a week and a half in southern China visiting a range of manufacturing facilities and meeting with senior executives, and the learnings were significant, some of which I want to share with you today. This is the kind of information that is really challenging to get from analysts and journalists simply because [...]
Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged China, Exchange rate, Hong Kong, Manufacturing, Uncategorized
By Jeff Nolan on February 19, 2010
Read this an it immediately resonated with me.
According to a study by Auto MD, which is owned by the US Auto Parts Network, Inc. (i.e. people who have a vested interest in making parts for used cars) 77% of people are, on average, planning on driving their current cars at least 50,000 miles more than [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged California, car buying, car purchase, Economic, Laffer Curve, mileage, Sales tax, Tax
By Jeff Nolan on February 10, 2010
I’ve been reading about some of the troubles that the Las Vegas hospitality industry is going through (as well as getting a lot of promo email for $40 a night suites at Mandalay Bay) and it again reminds me that populist uproar is neither rational nor constructive.
Luxury hotels have also suffered from the backlash from [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged American International Group, hospitality, hotels, las vegas, Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, populism, Ritz Carlton, San Francisco, tourism
By Jeff Nolan on January 28, 2010
For years and years (and years) there has been talk about the digitalization of medical records to enable portability. There are three primary problems that obstruct this vision, the first being a somewhat murky legal and regulatory environment with regard to what are the implications of the many laws dealing with privacy, data, and medical [...]
Posted in Business | Tagged American Academy of Pediatrics, data portability, digital data, EMR, Health care, medical records, Open source
By Jeff Nolan on January 28, 2010
Jobs has put together a remarkable track record at Apple over the years, not only releasing a string of hit products (overshadowing the few duds… like Apple TV) and making the company solidly profitable with a plurality of analysts rating it a solid buy even with a P/E of 20:1.
Having said all that, Jobs is [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged iPad, Uncategorized
By Jeff Nolan on January 26, 2010
In October of last year I wrote that Newsday’s paywall would fail to attract new revenue and as a defensive pricing strategy it does little or merit.
In the final analysis, this is exactly why it will fail. By creating a pricing plan that defends rather than attacks a market the company is conceding defeat in [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged failure, media, Newsday, paywall
By Jeff Nolan on January 26, 2010
Over the weekend @Devahaz asked me for my thoughts on current status re a post I wrote over 2 years ago lamenting the optimistic projections of newly minted electric vehicle companies.
I realize that I may be guilty of “not getting with the program” on this whole electric car business, but does anyone else [...]
Posted in Featured Posts, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Better Place, Chevrolet Volt, Electric car, electric vehicle, Honda Civic Hybrid, Internal combustion engine, Nissan Leaf, Toyota Prius
By Jeff Nolan on January 20, 2010
I have 12 copies of a new book, in fact I don’t even think it’s available thru Amazon yet, Blogging to Drive Business. The name makes it pretty obvious what it’s about, so all I will add is that I read it and thought it was pretty good, very actionable stuff.
I used to do these [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged blogging, books, charity, giveaway
By Jeff Nolan on January 13, 2010
There has been quite a bit of commentary about the decision by a Federal judge to allow video of the ongoing Prop 8 constitutionality trial to be posted on YouTube, a decision that has been stayed by the SCOTUS with a final decision due today.
In the meantime, one message is clear: Banning the [...]
Posted in Trends & Concepts | Tagged California Proposition 8, Law, Prop 8, Proposition 8, Same-sex marriage, Supreme Court, Uncategorized, Video, YouTube
