Hot Pistol
While the rest of the country tries to figure out what to do about the health-care problem, Silicon Valley is better than off than other places thanks largely to brash, big-mouthed Bob Sillen. While profit-hungry hospital chains abandoned inner cities and the elite flocked to hospitals in the West Valley and near Stanford, empire-building Sillen created the system for the rest of us. As head of Valley Medical Center and the Santa Clara Health and Hospital System until 2006, Sillen demanded and got financial accountability while expanding facilities and services.
