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To Control Health Care Costs, U.S. Employers Should Form Purchasing Alliances

Harvard Business Review

When it comes to health care costs, America’s employers are at a crossroads. That means that to control costs going forward, employers may have to confront the true underlying causes of rising health care expenditures: high prices and health care inefficiencies. The Future of Health Care.

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How CFOs Can Take the Long-Term View in a Short-Term Economy

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, when Mark Bertolini, CEO of Aetna, began articulating a strategy to invest billions to transform from a health insurance company to a health care company, analysts grumbled. In 2012, John Deere CEO Samuel Allen began releasing long-term, aspirational revenue targets for 2018. ” Many did.

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How Discrimination Against Female Doctors Hurts Patients

Harvard Business Review

In August 2018 officials from Tokyo Medical University admitted to systematically altering medical school admission test scores to disadvantage female applicants. The percentage of enrollees who were women had reached 40% in 2010, and now stands at approximately 30%.). James Boast/Getty Images.

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Where Both the ACA and AHCA Fall Short, and What the Health Insurance Market Really Needs

Harvard Business Review

The question of whether the United States will have functioning markets where individuals can buy health care insurance lies at the heart of the current debate about repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act (ACA). health care system. Private markets were failing before the ACA.