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This last week I attended Health Evolution Partners’ Leadership Summit in Laguna Niguel.  If you have to leave home for work, Laguna Niguel is the place you want to go.  I had a moment during the closing dinner where, on the lawn just beyond my ocean cliff-side table, there were six little bunnies hopping around and in the water behind them dolphins were swimming.  You would have sworn this was a Disney production, except everyone at my dinner table worked in the healthcare industry.  While there is a lot of Mickey Mouse behavior in healthcare, these were some pretty great people with whom to have dinner.

Anyway, at the kick-off event of the conference there was a panel of four health insurance executives representing some of the largest companies in that field (Aetna, United Healthcare, Humana).  Jeff Margolis, CEO of Trizetto, which makes its money selling IT systems to these guys, was the moderator.  One of the questions he started with was, “Do health plans need to repudiate their heritage and do things differently [to survive]?”

While they did it in different ways, the members of this health insurance … (read the rest)