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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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Companies Want to Disclose Employee Health Data to Shareholders, and It’s a Bad Idea

Harvard Business Review

A working group whose members include Humana, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, PepsiCo, Unilever, and South African insurer Discovery recently proposed that publicly traded corporations provide an overview on the health of their workforces in their various forms of public disclosure, including annual reports, 10-Ks, and sustainability reports.

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4 Business Models for the Data Age

Harvard Business Review

Those with the best data have enjoyed distinct advantages — in commerce, for example, better understanding the market leads to better products offered at better prices, and so forth. Any number of companies would like that data, and I’d be happy to provide it to some, at a price. But how, and at what price?