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Why The Health Care Reform Debate Makes Me Sick

The Recovering Engineer

As I look at the health care reform debate, I see a number of these behaviors in the way the discussion(s) is (are) proceeding. I am not a doctor, pharmacist, attorney, drug company executive or any other person who has deep insights into the intricacies of our health care system. And, frankly, it makes me sick.

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Why The Health Care Reform Debate Makes Me Sick

The Recovering Engineer

As I look at the health care reform debate, I see a number of these behaviors in the way the discussion(s) is (are) proceeding. I am not a doctor, pharmacist, attorney, drug company executive or any other person who has deep insights into the intricacies of our health care system. And, frankly, it makes me sick.

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What Is the Business of Health Care?

Harvard Business Review

The Emergence of Health as the Business of Health Care. Kodak had built a successful enterprise producing cameras, film, and photographic paper and chemicals, but what people wanted was images, and so when a better way to get those images was found, its customers followed. What Business Are We In? bankruptcy court.

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Why Kaiser Permanente Is Integrating Sustainability into Health Care Operations

Harvard Business Review

Kaiser Permanente (KP), one of the largest health care providers in America, has a clear mission: improve health. This health care leader is showing how an authentic, mission-driven connection to global issues can drive change. KP is not a minor player in a health care industry that accounts for 16% of U.S.

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Stepping Up Into Leadership

Women in the LEAD

  In her book, The Female Brain, Louann Brizendine cites very specific chemical and hormonal differences between men and women that specifically affect language and communication, giving us a scientific basis for this. .   In the past twenty years or so, we have read many works telling us what we already knew.

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Stepping Up Into Leadership

Women in the LEAD

  In her book, The Female Brain, Louann Brizendine cites very specific chemical and hormonal differences between men and women that specifically affect language and communication, giving us a scientific basis for this. .     In the past twenty years or so, we have read many works telling us what we already knew.

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New Research: Where the Talent Wars Are Hottest

Harvard Business Review

At the other end of the spectrum, we found the fewest companies plan to hire in the two industries most driven by uncertainty and regulation: financials and health care. banking & financial services, insurance, real estate); Health Care (e.g., chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).