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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. So the law has hit a delay, political heat is rising, businesses are in the middle, and many people are still just plain confused about what they have to do. What happens next?

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Fixing Health Care Will Require More than a New Payment System

Harvard Business Review

What these arguments often overlook is the challenge of actually managing that change. We run a hospital, several health clinics, and a community health worker network within the existing government infrastructure. We ensure all employees have a manager, and that no manager has more than five direct reports.

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business Review

The sheer sprawl of these outsourced services is bewildering, even at medium-size organizations: housekeeping, food services, materials management, IT, and clinical staffing, including temporary nursing and also physician coverage for the ER, ICU and hospitalists. Eliminating layers of management. cancel or rebid them). As the U.S.

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Should Your Boss Encourage You to Take Drugs?

Harvard Business Review

Or should management pretend those options don't exist? Most managers would believe they're doing a good thing if they encouraged a hard-of-hearing employee to explore a hearing aid or a visually-impaired colleague to consider glasses. Should that be encouraged? There should be neither stigma nor stimulus to their use.

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Companies Should Take the Lead in Fixing the Middle-Skills Gap

Harvard Business Review

With political gridlock and a focus on deficit reduction likely to continue in Congress, the federal government probably won't launch major new education and training initiatives anytime soon. It has trained more than 700 unskilled and displaced workers for well-paid jobs with defined career ladders in the biotech and health care sectors.

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Large Employers Are Key to Reforming Health Care

Harvard Business Review

health care system. Standardization of best practices in delivering care reduces unnecessary treatment, improves safety, and allows buyers and sellers of health care to use the same vocabulary, with the same information about quality and value. Change is difficult.

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America’s Loneliest Workers, According to Research

Harvard Business Review

Loneliness should be as important to managers, CFOs, and CEOs as it is to therapists. The last half-decade of research has demonstrated that loneliness threatens not only our physical health and well-being , but also our livelihood. Yet we are often blind to this hidden drain on health and revenue.

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