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

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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

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For example: Constant display changes that take hours to set up and break down — hours that could have been spent on much-higher-value work like helping customers and trying out process improvements. Predictable schedules. It’s also expensive.

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