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I retired at the beginning of 2009 from consulting in employee benefits (health care, disability, time-off policies, health management programs, financial analysis, survey analysis). During my career, I've written, spoken at many national conferences, and been interviewed by national and local media on the above topics. During the early 1990s, I wrote about the impact of health care reform on employers and developed a financial impact model to assess the impact of various proposals before Congress on employers. Through this work, I helped several large employers lobby in favor of health care reform in 1993-94.
My other (totally unrelated) "hobby" is studying the interaction between religion and science and principles common to all major religions. My perspective is closest to religious naturalism (vs. supernaturalism) and, to some extent, the ideas of Ken Wilber, Michael Dowd, biologist Ursula Goodenough, and others.