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Malcolm MacDougall

Malcolm MacDougall is a founding partner of Prides Crossing Executive Communication, LLC

articles/2014/11/24/how-the-health-care-bureaucracy-killed-me/141123-macdougall-health-tease_hur4en
Profits Before People

Insurance Killed Me, Despite Obamacare

<p>Malcolm MacDougall, a prominent speechwriter and creative director, was diagnosed with prostate cancer earlier this year. Even after the passage of the Affordable Care Act, his insurance company delayed and denied cancer treatments despite MacDougall paying his premiums. This is his story, in his own words, written five days before he died.</p>

Malcolm MacDougall

articles/2014/09/12/in-isis-speech-obama-failed-to-seize-the-moment-again/140912-macdougall-obama-tease_wunven
Tongue Tied

Obama Failed To Seize The Moment—Again

For a president who is known for his eloquence, the lack of a stirring and defining phrase against ISIS is more than a rhetorical failure.

Malcolm MacDougall

articles/2014/08/04/has-friendship-with-israel-become-a-casualty-of-war/140803-macdougal-isreal-losing-friends-tease_aslmoc
Warning Signs

Is Friendship a Casualty of Israeli War?

Israel is not a country that can afford to lose friends. But that’s what it’s doing with its ‘heartless’ bombing campaign in Gaza.

Malcolm MacDougall

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