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Why The Health Care Reform Debate Makes Me Sick

The Recovering Engineer

As I look at the health care reform debate, I see a number of these behaviors in the way the discussion(s) is (are) proceeding. I am not a doctor, pharmacist, attorney, drug company executive or any other person who has deep insights into the intricacies of our health care system. And, frankly, it makes me sick.

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Why The Health Care Reform Debate Makes Me Sick

The Recovering Engineer

As I look at the health care reform debate, I see a number of these behaviors in the way the discussion(s) is (are) proceeding. I am not a doctor, pharmacist, attorney, drug company executive or any other person who has deep insights into the intricacies of our health care system. And, frankly, it makes me sick.

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3 Entrepreneurs Who Made It Their Mission to Lower Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

trillion, or almost 18% of its GDP , on health care — that’s $10,000 per person, twice as much as any other country in the industrialized world. We know this because in India innovators have found ways to deliver high-quality care to everyone — rich, poor, and virtually penniless — and make money doing it.

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A Simple Way to Measure Health Care Outcomes

Harvard Business Review

Despite the current uncertainty surrounding the fate of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), health care leaders must not let debates over access detract from what needs to happen regardless of the legislation’s fate: Their organizations must improve the value of care they deliver. Innovating for Value in Health Care.

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The Downside of Health Care Job Growth

Harvard Business Review

While the growth of health care costs has slowed over the past few years, lowering costs over the long term will depend on improving health care labor productivity. Reducing the rate at which health care costs grow, and the proportion of U. health system grew by nearly 75%. Over half of the $2.6

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How to Turn Employees Into Value Shoppers for Health Care

Harvard Business Review

we fret that our health care system costs too much. But, given the structure of health insurance, the question should not be “Why are prices so high?” ” The question realistically should be “Why are prices not even higher? Why discount prices when you won’t get more customers?

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The U.S. Can’t Count on Technology to Revive the Job Market

Harvard Business Review

Technology to the rescue? One of the promising areas supported by technology is at the intersection of the internet and online technologies with the physical world: the “internet of things” (IoT). The technologies and trends shaping tomorrow’s businesses. Insight Center. The Future of Operations.