![]() This is a moderated blog, so comments will be vetted prior to posting. Hopefully, no guns will be involved.Īs always, comments are welcome. Patients and providers – not to mention taxpayers, have a huge stake in all this. As more players go all in, one wonders about the effects on individuals, businesses and the health care industry. Those “chips” in the aggregate represent that abovementioned 18% (and rising) share of GDP. Those that remain at the table have larger piles of chips in each new round. This new wave of combinations in health care is similar to watching a poker tournament and seeing participants depart the game. It appears that environment is undergoing a tectonic shift. It appears that the scramble for scale in the health care business, or the march to margin, or whatever else one wants to call it, will increase as the new health care environment works itself out. among health care providers and some health plans to realize that we are in a very dynamic period. How was I to know she was with the russians, too. This is the second song to appear here from the underrated Warren Zevon. One need only look at the size and pace of various recent health care related acquisitions, mergers, combinations, etc. Lawyers, Guns and Money (1978) Warren Zevon. On a national scale, there’s a lot of money at stake in health care – about 18% of the U.S. We have already had one Warren Zevon song in this list of Dylan favourites: ‘Desperado Under the Eaves’, And now it is time for a second: ‘Lawyers, Guns, and Money’. In the Fitzgibbons case, I assume there was enough money at stake for someone to think extreme measures were a worthwhile risk. In general (and not even specifically referring to the above mentioned lawsuit) it seems to me that for a person or persons to be willing to engage in criminal activity in order to achieve their goals, the stakes (at least to that person) must be pretty high. So that’s the part of the story about lawyers and guns. Record World called it 'rock n roll at its angriest. Fitzgibbons had been arrested after police, acting on an anonymous and false report of a road rage incident found a handgun in the doctor’s automobile – apparently planted by a party or parties attempting to discredit the doctor. 'Lawyers, Guns and Money' is a song by Warren Zevon, and the closing track on his 1978 album Excitable Boy. Michael Fitzgibbons, who sued hospital chain IHHI, claiming that IHHI had a role in framing Dr. I thought of the song when I read this story in the Orange County Register (follow up story here), about Dr. ![]() My favorite of the “quirky” songs is “Lawyers, Guns and Money.” While not nearly the quirkiest of his compositions (I would award that distinction to “Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner”), I’ve always enjoyed it. Much to Zevon's despair, that version of the song appeared on the first Zevon collection, A Quiet, Normal Life.The late Warren Zevon wrote many songs, some of which were, well…quirky. Pick of the Political Pops: Warren Zevon Lawyers, Guns and Money The First Time: Darren Lumbroso The Jam, Michael Sobell Sports Centre, London, 12th. Asylum released an edited version of the song with an entire verse cut from it. The song did cause some controversy due to the line “the s–t has hit the fan,” which was verboten on the radio. Though never a hit as a single, “Lawyers, Guns And Money” was a popular radio track and remains a favorite with Zevon's fans. 'Dear Joe,' I said, thinking of Joe Smith, the president of the record company. We were riding past the cane fields with a young woman whose acquaintance I'd made the previous evening, and she was taking us to a friend's 'plantation house.' She mentioned sort of off-handedly that her friend wasn't home that we might, in fact, have to break in. In the liner notes to the anthology, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, Zevon recounted the genesis of “Lawyers, Guns And Money”: “My friend Burt Stein (who was also my A&R man at Asylum Records) and I were on vacation in Kauai, Hawaii. Send lawyers, guns and money the shit has hit the fan. WARREN ZEVON Lawyers, Guns And Money (Featured on 1996 US exclusive 18-track promotional only KSCA Live From The Music Hall - Vol. Jackson Browne was an early Zevon supporter who helped broker his record deal with Asylum and produced his first two albums. Warren Zevon first made a name for himself as a songwriter whose work was recorded by others, particularly Linda Ronstadt (“Hasten Down The Wind,” “Poor Poor Pitiful Me,” “Mohammed's Radio”). Recorded: Summer 1977 at the Sound Factory in Hollywood, California
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