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Health Care Reforms That Work

Harvard Business Review

Diseases like diabetes, heart disease, cancer, chronic kidney disease, and stroke are on the rise in both the developed and the developing world, and they have a few things in common. First, they are responsible for contributing a large chunk of patients into the health care system, especially in developed countries like the US.

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Value-Based Care Alone Won’t Reduce Health Spending and Improve Patient Outcomes

Harvard Business Review

Despite spending twice what other developed nations spend on a per capita basis for health care, the United States has a longstanding trend of having lower life expectancy, greater prevalence of chronic disease, and overall poorer health outcomes. The Leading Edge of Health Care. Insight Center.

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Preview Thursday: Untangling the USA: The Cost of Complexity and What Can Be Done About It

Lead Change Blog

Nobody knew health care could be so complicated.”. today, where complexity is piled upon complexity in a number of critical sectors, such as health care, energy, finance, and government. is compared to that in other developed economies. Tom Brady and the “tuck rule.”. Wholesale changes must be contemplated.

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How Big Should Government Be?

Harvard Business Review

The author of these words is University of California, Davis economic historian Peter Lindert, who hid them among the data appendices in volume two of his epic 2004 empirical study, Growing Public: Social Spending and Economic Growth Since the Eighteenth Century. in 2010, government spending's share of GDP in the U.S.

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