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What to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present

Harvard Business Review

The new-growth areas MedStar mapped out included entering the general-population health insurance business as well as creating a major presence in ambulatory care – that is, outpatient locations aimed at preempting visits to the places where nearly all of its 30,000 employees currently worked. billion in 2010 to $4.9

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For U.S. Employers, Health Care Reform Is a Watching and Waiting Game

Harvard Business Review

Understanding the implementation plans for the health care law passed in 2010 is a complicated job for even the most seasoned policy wonks. These logistics took a sharp new turn last week when the Obama administration decided to delay enforcing mandatory employer and insurer employment requirements until 2015.