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Health Care Reforms That Work

Harvard Business Review

First, they are responsible for contributing a large chunk of patients into the health care system, especially in developed countries like the US. All of our new policies and efforts to provide affordable health care could pale in comparison to the exponentially rising costs associated with these diseases and their demographics.

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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. Sponsored by Optum.

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Women: The New Voices of Unions

Women on Business

Due to the worries over money, health care, benefits and decently paying jobs that don’t work you to pieces, organized labor unions are making a come back. When in 2004 a law was passed in California that required hospitals to have 1 nurse for every 5 patients, the governor delayed the implementation of the law. She says. “We

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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. In his writing, Deffarges focuses in six core areas of American society and institutions: Health care. Government.

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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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