is.....busier than I thought I would be, but not as busy as I could be.
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Big question reallytrue
Just a amusing thought here. I like doing DD also on who signs up here. You just signed up yesterday and then your first post (not positive) was about SKTO. happymario's last post (under a free account) stating he was going bye, bye & your signing up under reallytrue (also a free account) were just minutes apart.
Your not really happymario are you?
It just seems your writing style is so reminiscent and warmly familiar.
happymario, You didn't just sign up under the alias "reallytrue" did you?
happymario, I did not mean for you to go "bye, bye forever".
But I'm sure you will be back, probably under another "alias".
Don't want to appear to be smug here, but experience forms opinions. Your not gone, just gone as happymario.
Welcome to the board "reallytrue".
I see this is your first post on any board in investorshub.
Since your very first post since signing up on investorshub focuses on SKTO, what was your interest in looking at, and posting a comment on, SKTO above all the other stocks available here? Do you currently own or are interested in purchasing stock in SKTO? Or have you been on this board before under a different name?
Have you looked at the past posts to complete some basic DD on this company and it's many subsidiary's prior to posting your first comment?
I have no issue with any corporation changing it's name after six months, six years, or six decades. Why would anyone?
I have completed initial DD and Henry Jan was the sole shareholder & creator of ILN Barrington in April of 2001. On October 25 2001 it entered into a "business combination" with eneftech and changed it's name to eneftech.
It appears that Jan now sits as a shareholder on that corporation along with others. It will be interesting to see how they are going to put this all together.
They could have been more transparent & indicated this was a company Jan was involved with. It would have negated somewhat the issue of people looking for something negative to post here.
Whether this company has ties to Jan or not is not the point here though. This is a private company and as such can construct the path they require to get to the end results as they see fit, as long as it is legal. As I said before "we don't have to always like, or agree with what, they are doing". AND if you don't like what they are doing, DON'T BUY STOCK IN WHAT YOU DON'T LIKE.
Judging by your post the move they annouced obviously did not tickle your positive meter.
I myself will tether my positive, or negative, comments on this move until I can due more DD and explore the comments of others that are more knowledgeable about the course this company has taken over the past two years.
I suggest everyone complete some DD on this company to their own satisfaction prior to posting either negative, or positive comments, or buying stock!
100 years from now "reallytrue" all that will matter are the facts concerning the outcome of this company, not the positive, or negative, banter of some stock bloggers, present company included.
happymario, 430 posts on investorshub, on many different boards & still you seem to be somewhat "uneducated" about private companies, the workings to get them public, how to positively approach fellow stock bloggers so they don't "blowback" on you, investing in the "right" stocks, etc, etc.
After reading over many of your posts I feel somewhat bewildered concerning your long-term (or even your short-term) investment strategy. Losing money on the majority of stocks you are hopefully doing DD on to your satisfaction prior to investing, leaves me to believe you are missing some basic decision component/s prior to making the step to invest.
Certainly buying more, and more, and more of a stock that obviously pains you enough to continually publicly complain on the various boards here is a most disturbing trend and leads me to believe that on some level you require a open public platform to feed your desire to explain to the world just how in conflict you are to your actual name of "happymario".
I feel somewhat obligated to point something out to you happymario; What does failure & misery hate more than failure & misery?
Now most people won't get this right.
BEING ALONE!!!!
Using this public platform to constantly, & consistently propagate your negative view, or agenda, (I haven't figured out which one yet) in no way serves your fellow bloggers or the companies & people involved with any justice or dignity. But it probably does make you feel you are "not alone" out there in the world.
You continue to buy SKTO, or sell it, or bash it, or praise it. I just don't really think most people here care, or are swayed by, what your strategy or purpose is by continually posting negative comments about SKTO & other stocks.
Your tirades are amusing reading, but hardly helpful as an investment strategy.
Sorry if this was harsh, but it's just my humble opinion based on your many negative posts on the many boards here. I apologize if I am way off base here, (don't think I am too far off though) but someone needs to explain to you how you appear to others here, if you care that is.
I thought buying on "their side" would be use of "insider information" by SEC guidelines? Am I wrong?
And how would we know if "they" were buying anyhow??
As CEO of this conglomerate I would hope he is doing this to make money. There are many "rich" CEO's out there. Without the compensation for going through he.... to build these companies, why would anyone do it?
hk22, would you do it for free? I would hope even you would expect to be well compensated for your efforts in building something as big as this. Trouble is most people have a "worker bee" mentality and in fact really don't have what it takes to do much beyond what someone else directs them to do, and thus are paid exactly for what they contribute to to vision of the creator, which is usually a very, very small percentage. Without the creative genius of many CEO's in this country & around the World, most of us would still be farming for food. Creative CEO's such as Jan are few & far in-between, and as such are compensated for what they can envision, sometimes even before the vision has come to fruition.
Take a look at Harley Davidson's new CEO that was brought over from Johnson Controls. I had a two hour discussion with a top union representative concerning the direction and negotiations currently ongoing at HD. As he put it "the workers I represent as the head of the union just don't get why the new HD CEO is paid what they consider a exorbitant compensation package". As he put it "he is paid for what he can envision HD's future should be, not what he has done yet", Jan's visions should be well compensated IF he can get this off the ground, I'll begrudge his becoming rich if he can take us on the trip, and solve some of the issues surrounding the medical community in this Country. In the meantime I hope he is making some money to put gas in his car & eat!
And I don't know why some people continue to believe the CEO of any company is the one getting all the profit on these daily trades. I've seen many on this board buy, sell, & buy again. Unless Jan has about 40 different alias's on this board, there seems to be many people buying, & selling.
I doubt the 100's of millions of SKTO stocks that have cycled through the buying & selling process are all going into Mr. Jan's pocket, so should you.
All that being said, I still expect performance when I complete DD, like what I see and then invest in a company. Outright scams should be called out and prosecuted. But remember any investment is a risk, been married lately? :)
AEGY @ $1.08 for $587,884 sold today. Any thoughts?? Both are under Jan's company. One goes up, the other goes down? Maybe he should have RM'd into AEGY!! It seems using SKTO for profiting to Jan makes little sense when he can use AEGY for that.
$2800 is going in Henry Jan's pocket? hk22, do you think this is really the case?
I would think he would be using AEGY to "line his nest" or "pad his pocket". Why go through all the he..... down here to create $2800?
I bet this stock is sitting in other investors hands, not Jan's, and they are the ones selling for less than peanuts. Why they are selling at these prices is what intrigues me.
Whoops, update! WE'RE ALMOST UP TO $3700 NOW! I guess that makes it worth Mr. Jan's efforts to take all the abuse on this board for $3700, I would hope not, and I doubt this is benefiting him personally.
OTS shareholder merger vote?? Anyone hear anything?
This is eye opening when put all on one page!
Considering we are all so jittery & uncertain here, why is it that all these other knowledgeable companies, Board of Directors, Owners, Political Figures and such keep signing on? Not to mention all the people that continue to purchase this stock everyday. That is what I continue to ponder on a daily basis!
I was hoping DollarAtATime was going to shed some real light on the inner workings of this company, but her/his "untimely death" prevented us from exploring that connection. I wonder what their "group" is doing with the large block of SKTO stock she/he indicated they controlled.
Another HOTI shell, AEGY, seems to be doing very well ($1.05 today!!) without all these issues that keep coming up on SKTO's side. Any thought's out there as to a potential strategy concerning that dynamic?
BTW, I'm sure Hipple oversees the AEGY entity also & it seems to be doing fine, and you see no negative references associated with his name there!
Shout out; any word on the OTS shareholders vote?????????
sdy, last read on the vertical strategy of Henry Jan is the energy side is supposed to support energy conservation in all buildings HOTI has under it's umbrella though the various technologies that they are able to employ & deploy.
We can assume (something I normally hate to do, but I do see the connective tissue here) that being in a very energy uncertain world, the implementation of these energy saving measures into the physical plants HOTI oversees would/could give them a competitive operating cost advantage that may well mean the difference between survival and insolvency when energy costs rise for those individual building operators. (don't bet on energy costs retreating over the long run). This is what I surmise from doing DD on the vertical integration strategy that Henry Jan has employed here.
Also I believe they intend to make this technology available to others outside the HOTI corporate structure (at a nice profit you can imagine).
BL0ODLESS, what is Hipple's position with HOTI? A Director, A VP, A Consultant.......?
stoploss73, we need to do some additional DD on Hipple to see what he has been up to since 2005. We do know he is a lawyer and tax/SEC law professor and I'm sure knows what he is required to respond to, and what he can "skirt" when it comes to the SEC. I'm sure he wouldn't conduct himself in a manner in which he knew would land him in jail! In business you don't always want the "nicest" lawyer but the most "effective" one. That often means generous interpretation of the law and conduct some of us without the in-depth background of legalese would consider suspicious, if not downright illegal.
Here is public knowledge on Hipple; (I added to his age from 2004 info. to come up with current estimate of age & experience)
Robert Hipple, age 65(?), is an attorney, law professor and senior executive with 40(?) years experience as president and chief executive officer, chief financial officer and general counsel, as well as a director, for several public (NYSE, AMEX and NASDAQ) companies. He also has extensive experience with public mergers, acquisitions and capital raising, along with personal relations with investment banks, broker/dealers, and market makers, and has taught both taxation and federal securities law at Georgetown University Law School, Emory University Law School, the University of San Diego School of Law and Florida A&M University College of Law. He serves as Chairman and CEO of iWorld Projects & Systems, Inc., a publicly traded Business Development company under the Investment Company Act of 1940. Mr. Hipple also has been President of iTrustFinancial, Inc., a Florida based business consulting company since June, 2003, has been a Visiting Professor of Law at Florida A&M University College of Law, was President and CEO of International Trust & Financial Systems, Inc., a publicly traded financial services company in 2002 and 2003 and was Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Enesco, Inc., a New York Stock Exchange listed company based in the Chicago area from August 1999 to April 2001. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Bronco Energy Fund, Inc., a public Business Development Company in the coal mining and related technologies market based in Tucson, Arizona and serves as Chair of the Audit Committee.
Mr. Hipple received a B.A. degree in Economics and Finance from Wesleyan University, a J.D. and LLM degrees from Georgetown University Law Center, and completed the MBA program in finance at Emory University School of Business.
I agree BL0ODLESS!! It would be nice if we were inside the minds of Jan's strategic team. We are not, and thus we get frustrated when we cannot see clearly the path they are negotiating. As I've said before, there are many people here who are well "seasoned" and should be providing Henry Jan with all options to put this company together, AND get it to the NASDAQ.
I can only "trust the team". We are not on that team, but I sure wish I was the proverbial "fly on the wall".
LOL! stoploss73, just simply go back over all the press releases this company has put out and you will see a cornucopia of strategies to get this company to NASDAQ. I believe everyone involved with the company has every intention of taking us all on a great ride to the Moon but, you can rule NOTHING out as far as their strategy to go public! They are innovative to say the least.
This company has evolved so fast and gotten so huge that these basic and broad-based changes to their plan are not unheard of in the business world.
But everything they've done has the same common thread to it if you do the DD, Henry Jan & his people are taking this conglomerate public and the "believers" will benefit greatly from supporting that vision. I believe Mr. Jan is doing what is best for the ever-changing companies future, even if that changes everyday and makes us feel uncomfortable.
As far as forecasting the RM goes; I am certainly no visionary, but when anyone says to me something is "never" going to happen, I like to adhere to a saying Grandpa used: "Never say never".
Never say never with this company!
These are just my innocent and well-meaning statements and thoughts, take what you will from them!
BL0ODLESS, I just thought with all the changes I've seen since watching this company that they would not leave any strategy off the table. That's why I indicated a RM could be a potential strategic path. Remember, my background is in research & tactical planning. Just trying to stay 1/2 step ahead.
I will give myself a very small pat on the back. But really, it just seemed like common sense for them to look at all potential strategies to go to NASDAQ, RM was just one we could not definitively say they would not explore, no matter the press releases.
We await the next chess move of Henry Jan's King.
BL0ODLESS, just got back in. Does the new deal mean they are Reverse Merging into Eneftech? If so, I guess I was a visionary (LOL), doubtful I will ever be called that! Can someone explain why they have taken this route and what it means in the short term?
Yes BL0ODLESS, as the kids say today AEGY is "sick"! (I guess that means in a very good way). That's why I said SKTO should be trending alongside AEGY instead of swimming here at around a penny.
My 2 cents worth (about two SKTO stocks as of today) says that any good businessman, or business group, keeps all the cards in play.
This is a private company and they have yet to lay out a plan that does not change somewhat as we all move forward with them. I do believe that according to their last press release you are right BL0ODLESS, but HOTI's plans can, and have, changed radically since this company was created. Just look at all the past PR from the company, there have been many strategic changes to how they were putting this conglomerate together, or how they were going public.
A betting mind would consider past performance & strategic changes this company has made when looking towards future adjustments to their business plan. In fact Jan's last letter even indicates they have made adjustments to their plan, and I think they will continue to perform in this manner as is in the best interests of the company.
I have little doubt that Jan's group is above board here, but relying on the last press release of this company as a rock solid indicator of what this company is going to do is somewhat unrealistic in my mind.
Jan & his people seems smart, smart enough I bet, to keep all options open as backup strategy's in case there is an issue with SKTO (or any other of the shells) going public.
Remember, one of his team is a former SEC Law Professor. Think they just might have a few cards up their sleeves?
Any word on the OTS deal?
Henry Jan appears to be well respected by the subsidiaries as they must know more about his plans than we do.
Have heard nothing today on OTS approval of merger with HOTI, anyone else heard anything?
It still is in my head that this company may just take the RM route. They have so many companies here in the mix that are reporting and have good, clean backgrounds that it just makes good business sense to RM. Could it be Henry Jan is keeping this option "up his sleeve"? I would like to hear ideas from others here on the board about this possible strategy.
Let us know if OTS releases any info today as I'm going to be offline for a few hours. Like you said though BL0ODLESS, they probably will wait until tomorrow to do a press release, unless vote was predetermined and they drafted one in advance of the vote.
Anyone hear ANYTHING about the SKTO name change to HOTS?
AEGY looks good, lets get SKTO/HOTS to the same level!!!
I think I'm smart BL0ODLESS, but it's just hard to argue with the decisions of people I know are smarter than me!
Dad said "when in doubt, ask somebody smarter than you"
Why don't our bashers here ask these people why they approved a merger with a company the bashers are calling a scam?
http://allezoe.com/leadership.aspx
http://allezoe.com/board.aspx
http://allezoe.com/advisors.aspx
And this is the brain-trust of just one company!!!
BL0ODLESS, have to agree with you. As I've said before on this board; take a look at the creative & well connected "horsepower" in just the board of one company about to be (hopefully) involved with this company.
http://allezoe.com/board.aspx
If the vote of the shareholders goes in the same direction of the OTS Directors, we have another powerhouse of Nationally connected corporate brain-trust on board with Henry Jan's company. I don't think you will have to drive up to the OTS headquarters to determine if OTS is "real", or ask somebody there why you should buy stock in this company. Do you think they just might know a little bit more about whats happening here than an anonymous basher on Investorshub?
Remember, one OTS Director has been in the National Political scene for decades as a Governor & HHS Secretary, and just may run for POTUS!
People of this ilk are not about to be taken in by a smooth talking con man. I doubt anyone down here in "pennyland" is as connected, or as knowledgeable, as to what the potential for this company is than the people that sit on the various boards that have signed on with Henry Jan.
There are many other companies of OTS's caliber that have already signed on with Healthcare of Today so as I said before; get ready for a ride once this takes off!
Scam? I don't think so.
SOTTT, this news was posted 5/25 on this board. Your post of, "Now down we go :(", is hardly fair response to something posted seven days earlier.
You may have seen it posted somewhere else yesterday, but the fact is the basic info of this sale was here a week ago and well discussed by others on this board. I would hope a news a week old would not affect us today.
New PR, where? Not on Marketwire or the usual places I watch.
mccoy, please look back on this board. There have been many people doing due diligence on the subsidiaries in this company. Some have actually visited the locations, talked to the management and have come away satisfied with what they've seen & heard. I myself am aware of one entity (Healthstaff Training) that has been in business for over 20 years in Southern California with a good reputation. The OTC subsidiary has a 4-term ex governor & former United States Health & Human Services Secretary that has openly spoken about running for President of the United States as a board member. They have a former SEC Law Professor on board also. As many here are saying, a lot of good people & companies are all aligned behind this company & Mr. Henry Jan. We sure all hope that with our DD this is not a scam or many investors, along with some high profile people, will go down.
Enjoy a Happy & Safe Memorial Day Weekend!
The way this company acquires subsidiaries it shouldn't be too long before you will have something in New York to do DD on!
Morning everyone, BL0ODLESS, this school is well known in the Southern California area for training Pharmacy Technicians. Following emerging trends & the future direction of medical training needs in the California market for a medical strategic planning company during the early 90-mid 90's brought this school to our attention. At that time there were two owners that operated a well respected school with great placement of students. I believe one of the owners passed away some years ago and the remaining partner/founder, now runs the school? May have to do some DD to verify that though. I do believe the web-site is newer as I did not see it a couple months ago while looking through the acquisitions of the company. They are the real deal though, with well over 20 years offering various training programs to the medical community.
BTW, waiting for this to go to .026 as forecast earlier this week by the "Oracle" aohj2joint, on this board . I'll even give them to Tuesday to validate that post here!
GL and have a safe Memorial weekend everyone.
I did have a small smile on my face when I saw this forecast. I thought the tooth fariy had blessed this stock & we would see.026 by the end of the month. Now I'm not smiling as much as someone told me there is no tooth fairy. Please, let's stick to good DD and facts here. Thanks.
By the way, I would LOVE to have this even go to .020 by the end of this month, as I'm sure a few others out there would!!
.026 by the end of this month? You realize that leaves 2 days of trading as the 31st is a legal holiday. What crystal ball are you using that says this will go from sub-penny today to .026 by Friday? Seriously aohj2joint, I want one!!!!!
I did not have an issue with the PR today as this is exactly what a vertically integrated company is supposed to do, utilize resources within the corporate structure. Though they could have spun it around the idea of "this is how much we saved by going in-house versus buying from the retail market". That would have added value to the vertical integration strategy the company touts.
More than likely the companies already on board are prohibited from purchasing this stock due to SEC "insider" rules.
I would like to see some substantial information from the company, not just more PR, this would help immensely at this point.
Works for me too BL0ODLESS. Thanks for the clarification.
Hello votrade, just listened to these taped programs. It seems that this Norm Watson & Dan McKewan (correct spelling?) seem to have some previous history as Norm referred to "it's always nice to talk to you".
From my previous posts you would have sworn I had listened to these taped interviews before, but I did not have knowledge of them before your providing them to me tonight. The observations and subsequent statements of my thoughts on this board concerning the supposed intent and potential direction of this company came totally from my background in strategic business development. I was pleasantly surprised that they actually hit upon many of the forward thinking ideas that I had surmised from my study of the company that they could or would take, including the thought of Jan taking this company Global! Looks like I have not lost my analytical edge!!
After listening to the interview, I believe I have a much better idea of why former Health & Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson's OTC company signed on. They wanted in on a good thing!!!
Now the other side..... I am always somewhat skeptical of any "rosy" review of a company being done by the people that have the most to gain from the review. But, my exploration & DD into this company supports many of the companies that are involved backgrounds & also the advancements in health care options they talked about. There are many companies in their mix that are hard services companies. A nice mix of traditional services mixed with cutting edge (or beyond cutting edge) companies makes my success meter tingle with excitement.
I also heard in the interview that they have many experienced lawyers and a former SEC law professor involved at the management level. There must be some level of truth to the claims they are making with this company or this whole bunch knows where they are headed if this is all a scam. As somebody said on this board before "there are way too many high level and respected people & companies on board here for this all to be a scam".
Now.... the only thing I'm wondering is; after listening to this taped interview that was done almost two months ago, WHY IS THIS STOCK PRICE IN THE BASEMENT?
They compared Henry Jan & his company to Bill Gates & Microsoft, the interviewer said it was the best thing he has seen in a decade, and here we are in the basement on stock value? Meanwhile AEGY is outperforming SKTO which holds most of the companies??? Is it wake up from sleepy time here?
Thank you votrade, I have not had the chance to listen to these but will now.
BTW, whats with the ask of $1.05 at closing??
BL0ODLESS it looks as if they will require that large infusion of cash to pay the acquisition companies after reviewing the structure of the various deals as we know them, and it looks as if he already has enough talent lined up with the acquisitions, or already on his team to address the implementation of his strategy.
But also, and please educate me here as this is not my forte, could they have not RM'd into a strong shell that was already trading, brought everything together under that roof and recapped (if I am using the right term here) the stock, thereby accomplishing almost the same end game? Teach me, I'm not too old to learn!!!!
The area of where the money came from was not so much of a concern to my strategic development background, as this was most often left to others when I came up with a workable plan. I studied demographics, trends, opportunity & options and then presented/implemented innovative solutions to the challenges. I let the money people figure a way to get us the cash required to accomplish my plans, so I am somewhat of a novice learning daily about the investment world.
As another of my old mentors said years ago, "kid, you never have a money problem, you have an idea problem, come up with a great idea at the right time and I'll find the money for you". I believe Jan has a brilliant idea here (wish I would have thought it up), so he has taken care of the "idea" part from my background experience. I would guess he has those who also "coach" him as to the best strategy on how to get his plans funded. This is probably why an IPO and not a RM.
This is a fun and inexpensive (at it's current price) way to get into this company. I could be as wrong as the next person, but my background tells me this company has the right idea at the right time. Two components required for success. The third is money. Lets see things become more transparent from the companies side and I feel that issue will also take care of itself and upward we will go!
Thanks votrade, I guess my enthusiasm after doing my own DD for the parent company shows. I like DenverBruin wonder though why they have taken some of the strategies they've taken to get to the IPO vs RM.
I do want everyone to complete DD to their own satisfaction though, there is no doubt about that. But it appeared some people were also enthusiastically attempting to drive this stock right into the ground.
In any event I think this is a long haul process to profit, but one that surely looks for all purposes, like it will get there. Just a great opportunity to get in at the bottom from my view.
I follow the actions of certain political figures and once I caught on that OTC (Tommy Thompson) had signed with Henry Jan's company I started looking at the makeup of the individual "shells" and Jan's strategy of vertical integration. I viewed this as somewhat of a brilliant strategy considering where we stand with the whole medical services picture in this Country.
Even the most novice person at doing DD can attain quite a comprehensive picture of the health care challenge this nation, and other nations, are facing. I liken the health care issue to a train heading towards the proverbial unseen wall, only this time we can see the wall.
Visionary's like Jan are coming up with innovative solutions to the challenge of providing a comprehensive "fix" to those issues. I would not be surprised in the least bit after reviewing Jan's PR on his offshore agreements/LOI's/acquisitions that his intent is to take this strategy global, then hang on!
Keep up the good work of completing good DD on this company.
Nice day to you.
DenverBruin, this is the last update from the CEO, Henry Jan, on the company website. I hope I inserted it correctly.
http://www.healthcareoftoday.com/MediaRoom/LetterFromCEO2010
This small insert from the overall letter is what I was looking at specifically: To date we have announced two public subsidiary operations (SKTO for Services and AEGY for Energy) and plan to announce our Healthcare IT and Biotech & Life Sciences arms in the near future. Once all five subsidiaries I have just described for you are established and operating, the parent company, Healthcare of Today, Inc., will undertake its long-planned IPO and will apply for listing on NASDAQ.
I think that sums it up. As to why no RM, I also do not understand that strategy. It does seem to be a shorter path than IPO. This is a question possibly for IrishEyes? I surmised that he seemed to have more of an inside view of the overall corporate philosophy from his posts. ??
Well said BL0ODLESS! Thank you for bringing this discussion back where it should be, on what Henry Jan is creating. I believe this is a unique opportunity to get in at a low cost (could it be any lower?) with a company that is placing itself to be at the forefront of complete health care services. No single company has ever looked this comprehensively at the overall jigsaw picture that is health care, Henry Jan has.
Let us support Mr. Jan's groups vision. That vision is why I believe all these companies, & Mr. Thompson, former Health & Human Services Secretary, agreed to be involved with this company.
From Mr. Thompson's National exposure to health care issues, he must know what companies are best strategically positioned to address the coming storm of those health care issues. His company did not sign on with any of the other options that are currently out there, that spoke volumes to me, hope it did to others here also.
Thank you maverick0607, I think its high time we get back to looking at SK3 & HealthCare of Today and get away from all the negativity that some have brought to this board.
Many here are looking at the larger picture and appreciate what direction Henry Jan has taken with this company. He is ahead of the demand curve in vertically integrating many of these associated companies. When demand & costs rise at the same time, companies that are integrated such as this one will be able to survive the storm by consolidation in order to make the overall company more competitive. In this fast changing world of ours, companies that are able to display that competitive advantage, will survive, and thrive, as their competitors fall by the wayside.
If anyone doubts Mr. Jan's strategy, you have to look no further than the current trend of Medical GPO's, without them, many individual medical practices would already have been shuttered. I believe after reading all the press releases and studying the various companies Henry Jan has assembled here, he is onto something huge.
He has taken the GPO idea and expanded it into the whole medical arena, encompassing all components required to run a health care system. Like Microsoft, watch everyone else try to follow suit.
Maverick0607, Another "Grandpaism": The early bird gets the worm" Hang in there!