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How One Nonprofit Is Expanding Health Care for the Uninsured

Harvard Business Review

If the Affordable Care Act unravels in the near term, the number of insured could creep back up to 50 million, the level in 2009. These numbers exclude the millions more who are under insured — people with high deductibles, high copays, and benefit caps that leave them very exposed if they fall seriously ill and are hospitalized.

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Is HR Too Important to Be Left to HR?

Harvard Business Review

8:07 AM Tuesday November 23, 2010 by Armin Trost | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print Too often I hear even HR people saying, "HR is too important to be left to HR." Thats different in IT, accounting, or finance. Thats different in IT, accounting, or finance. All rights reserved.

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Demographics Could Give the U.S. a Competitive Edge

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, between 2000 and 2010, the annual average growth rate of 20- to 29-year-olds in the U.S. In the context of a not-yet-entirely-settled system of healthcare finance in the U.S., workers cannot be sure that they will have health insurance or ready access to care, and, indeed, many do not. in Italy and Spain.

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Women as Microfinance Leaders, Not Just Clients

Harvard Business Review

For example, at Kenya Women Finance Trust , we were intrigued to hear about the "marriage counseling" its human resources department offers to the newlyweds among its women employees. One result was the innovative supplemental health insurance product MFW launched in April 2010.

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A Couple Reasons to Smile About

Women on Business

and it’s as if the end of 2010 wasn’t just the end of a calendar year but the end of tough times. After a year of uncertainty and tumult, Congress finally got around to making some crucial decisions in the last month of 2010. Extends the 2010 income tax, capital gains and dividend tax rates for all Americans.