Author

Gail Walker

  • Hold Your Nose

    Who takes an umbrella to Orlando? Not me, and I got drenched walking from a breakfast meeting across the street to the Orange County Convention Center
  • Notes from 2011

    Each year, Beloit College puts together a mindset list for its freshman class. For the students entering college this fall the Class of 2011 the list
  • No Choice Here

    Children vs. seniors? What an outrageous showdown. Yet that's exactly the match the House of Representatives has set up in its expansion of the State
  • Rock On

    In Washington last month for AAHomecare's Legislative Conference, I was struck by the cataclysmic divide between providers who are moving forward with
  • Fraud Dj Boo-Boo

    Remember Operation Wheeler Dealer? Remember the doctor who wrote thousands of power wheelchair scrips? Remember the special CMS task force that, for a
  • Stick with Wayne

    When the going gets tough, the tough get going. When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour. Aw, heck, who
  • Good Insurance

    You have to be an eternal optimist to be in this business, proclaims California provider Cliff Woolard. And he is. Despite reimbursement reductions galore,
  • Pretty in Pink

    Recently, Respironics launched a new sleep mask called the OptiLife. The company says the pillows-style mask is based on what its customers all of its
  • Working Vocabulary

    Each year, lots of new words and phrases make their way into our country's common speech. When you look at the terms dictionary-keepers and others record