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What Has the Eurozone Learned from the Financial Crisis?

Harvard Business

This month marks the 10-year anniversary of the Lehman Brothers collapse, the prelude to the worst global financial crisis since 1929. economy are asking whether we learned enough from the 2008 crisis about how to manage risk in the financial system. Thomas Janisch/Getty Images. Ten years after the crisis, observers of the U.S.

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How Health Care Providers Can Ensure Patients’ End-of-Life Wishes Are Known

Harvard Business

Efforts to boost participation in these conversations include the introduction of new billing codes to financially incentivize primary care physicians to discuss ACP, as well as grassroots advocacy efforts to highlight the importance of discussing end-of-life wishes. Engage the public sector.

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5 Ways U.S. Hospitals Can Respond to Medicare’s Mounting Costs

Harvard Business

As aging baby boomers continue to join the program, Medicare enrollment will rise at 3% a year until the end of the decade in 2029, and 2.4% What this means for hospitals is crystal clear: Unless their losses from treating Medicare patients can be contained, their financial future is in jeopardy! a year in the decade after.

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