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

Harvard Business Review

A cascading series of deadlines, operating systems, and reporting rules have to be arranged, tested, and communicated. 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.

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What to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present

Harvard Business Review

MedStar operated nine hospitals, but realized that its long-held objective of increasing revenue and profits at those venues was unsustainable, given the outcries over runaway medical costs. These new ventures would operate separately from the core hospital assets and would compete in new ways in the health care marketplace.