I'm leaving for a slightly-less-than-three week vacation, and will be posting sporadically at best. This will be the longest break since grad school, and I'm very much looking forward to the time away. One of the really big problems with taking an extended vacation is the somewhat scary notion that the world will proceed along just fine in one's absence.

Therefore, if anyone is planning any momentous changes in the worlds of managed care, health policy, workers comp, or insurance, please delay until my return.

If the changes absolutely can't wait, we'll just have to rely on Matt Holt, Hank Stern, Tom Lynch and Julie Ferguson, Roy Poses, and the rest of the erudite, informed, and incisive that populate the health wonk-o-sphere to announce, analyze, interpret, and pronounce judgment .

Somehow I think they'll do just fine.