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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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Competing in the Huge Digital Economies of China and India

Harvard Business

The private sector, companies such as Alibaba – e.g. Sesame Credit, run by the Ant Financial, an Alibaba affiliate. Using our DEI model , there are three possible catch-up scenarios: First, if India were to pick up China’s momentum, it would reach China’s current level of digital evolution by 2029.