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How One Nonprofit Is Expanding Health Care for the Uninsured

Harvard Business Review

trillion on health care , or more than $10,000 per person, which is twice as much as any other industrialized country. 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. The Future of Health Care. Bjarte Rettedal/Getty Images.

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What the CVS-Aetna Deal Means for the Delivery of U.S. Health Care

Harvard Business Review

The landscape for the delivery of health care in the United States is changing, but the traditional care-delivery players are not the change agents. In fact, this environment is the most disruptive I’ve witnessed in my 35 years in the health care industry. Carol Yepes/Getty Images.

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The Innovation Health Care Really Needs: Help People Manage Their Own Health

Harvard Business Review

Finally, health care, which has been largely immune to the forces of disruptive innovation , is beginning to change. Whereas new technologies, competitors, and business models have made products and services more affordable and accessible in media, finance, retail, and other sectors, U.S. health care keeps getting costlier.

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Health Care Innovation Doesn’t Have to Be Driven by Profit

Harvard Business Review

As health care reform evolves, large public institutions that offer a health safety net have some advantages over privately owned enterprises. Those are all assets in an era of health care reform. I head one of these institutions: Dallas-based Parkland Health and Hospital Systems. Insight Center.

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Demographics Could Give the U.S. a Competitive Edge

Harvard Business Review

competitiveness strikes a pessimistic tone about certain demographic facts — the education gap between young people and the jobs which are and will be available, the aging of the American population, and the related rise in health care costs. than in other industrialized countries. The March issue of HBR on U.S.

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Artisans Must Balance the Books

Harvard Business Review

The Conversation Blogs The Conversation Artisans Must Balance the Books 8:12 AM Tuesday November 23, 2010 by Ndubuisi Ekekwe | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print The boy was 11 years old when his father took him to live with a kinsman, a businessman with many shops in Lagos, Nigeria. All rights reserved.

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Improve the Affordable Care Act, Don’t Repeal It

Harvard Business Review

Specifically, it has allowed for significant expansion of insurance coverage and it is accelerating the move from a financing system that pays for the volume of services provided to one that rewards care providers for delivering higher-quality care. Innovating for Value in Health Care. Insight Center.