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Value-Based Care Alone Won’t Reduce Health Spending and Improve Patient Outcomes

Harvard Business

It includes social factors (employment, family and social support, income, education), behaviors (diet and exercise, tobacco, alcohol and drugs, sexual activity), and the physical environment (housing, air and water quality, transportation). However, this was outweighed by the reduction in utilization of hospital services.

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Higher Wages Aren’t Enough to Turn Mediocre Jobs into Good Ones

Harvard Business

Higher wages are also necessary for many companies that are stuck in a vicious cycle of bad jobs, bad operations, bad customer service, low productivity, and high costs. So, we applaud Amazon’s decision and hope others will do the same. But higher wages alone are not enough to break this vicious cycle. Predictable schedules.

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