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

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However, transitioning to a VBC approach involves added infrastructure, training costs, and complexity of delivering care in an environment that mixes fee-for-service and value-based reimbursement. There were also many other barriers to effective care, including lack of transportation, inadequate housing, and inability to read prescriptions.

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

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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. When they have an idea for improvement, they are shut down by a manager who is already overwhelmed with all the firefighting she or he has to do.

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