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Incremental Fixes Won’t Save the U.S. Health Care System

Harvard Business Review

The challenge now is creating enough incentives and pressure to move the bulk of the market. That means more aggressively reducing fee-for-service reimbursement rates relative to value-based payments. We need outsized financial incentives and more upside for taking the risk.

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How Blockchain Could Help Emerging Markets Leap Ahead

Harvard Business Review

This helps to prove their identity, cutting down on fraud and creating market efficiencies. Blockchains default to being open data, which would allow governments and companies to rapidly learn from, test, and evolve new, more efficient best practices for conducting and facilitating trade. The system currently serves a billion people.