I've been reviewing Creating A World Without Poverty, Muhammad Yunus' visionary book about a new kind of capitalism. I looked at the book in three parts: Muhammad Yunus: Capitalism Is Half-Baked How Muhammad Yunus Created an Impossible Business ...
When Gallup asked Americans if the earth revolves around the sun, 79% said yes. Shocked that 21% disagreed? That lack of general knowledge may be alarming, but for folks in business it might be more shocking to know that more Americans believe big business is untrustworthy than have a...
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In a previous blog, we questioned whether or not employers should encourage healthy lifestyles to increase productivity. If discounted gym memberships and healthy vending machine alternatives -- no doubt, placed next to Snickers bars -- don't do the trick, new regulations may. Companies can now charge unhealthy overweight...
The Food and Drug Administration FDA estimates that counterfeit products make up more than 10 percent of the global pharmaceuticals supply. Whether it is counterfeit products slipping into the supply chain or employees engaging in unlawful pricing activities, fraud costs life sciences companies billions of dollars annually. Implementation of sufficiently...
After a high-profile merger, a major health management organization needed to generate the IT synergies it committed to the street. The health plan engaged Deloitte Consulting LLP Deloitte Consulting to provide Outsourcing Advisory Services help them in their efforts to streamline the predominately outsourced IT infrastructure of the newly merged...
Tyco International is nearing the end of its life as a $40 billion healthcare and capital goods conglomerate. The company has been planning its break-up since January 2006, with the actual separation scheduled to occur at the end of this month. The embattled conglomerate will be divided into three publicly...
Many supply chain models lack the flexibility and agility to create demand-driven supply networks that build customer satisfaction and profits through greater efficiencies and product customization. This white paper explores the basic concepts behind demand-driven supply networks as well as the vital link provided by product completion services. Product completion...
Theoretical models predict asymmetric information in health insurance markets may generate inefficient outcomes due to adverse selection and moral hazard. However, previous empirical research has found it difficult to disentangle adverse selection from moral hazard in health care. The authors empirically study this question by using data from the Health...
The authors' construct and test a new model of employer-provided health insurance provision in the presence of adverse selection in the health insurance market. In their model, employers cannot observe the health of their employees, but can decide whether to offer insurance. Employees sort themselves among employers who do and...
The weak response by the uninsured to policy initiatives encouraging voluntary enrollment in health insurance has raised concerns regarding the extent to which the uninsured value health insurance. To address this issue, data is used from the 2001 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey to examine the association between health insurance preferences...
Some states have implemented community rating regulations to limit the extent to which premiums in the individual health insurance market can vary with a person's health status. Community rating and guaranteed issues laws were passed with hopes of increasing access to affordable insurance for people with high-risk health conditions, but...
Globalization is likely to affect many aspects of public health, one of which is vaccine-preventable communicable diseases. Important forces include increased funding initiatives supporting immunization at the global level; regulatory harmonization; widespread intellectual property rights provisions through the World Trade Organization agreements; the emergence of developing-country manufacturers as major players...
Many states have "Prudent layperson" mandates that require health plans to reimburse hospitals for Emergency Department ED care delivered to patients who believe that they have symptoms warranting emergency treatment. Increased, and possibly unnecessary, ED use has often been attributed to these policies. Data has been used from thirty-five states...
This paper provides a descriptive overview of the market for supplementary Voluntary Health Insurance VHI, or Private Medical Insurance PMI, in the United Kingdom. The structure of the paper reflects the three principal dimensions of the market: the product, demand and supply. An appendix discusses the market for health cash...
This paper examines the role of employer provided health insurance in the retirement decisions of dual working couples. The near elderly have high-expected medical expenditures; therefore, availability of health insurance is an important factor in their retirement decisions. It is determined if access to retiree health insurance for early retirement...
Issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services HHS, the HIPAA Security Rule mandates that companies with small health plans - defined as those with less than $5 million in group medical claims - will have to comply with 17 standards, and at least half of the 41...
Companies that don't provide health-care insurance could soon get a wake-up call. That's because an increasing number of states - 23 at recent count, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures - are considering so-called pay-or-play bills that would force employers either to provide some coverage or pay a...
This paper use data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study to estimate the effects of poor infant health, pre-pregnancy health conditions of the mother, and the father's health status on health insurance status of urban, mostly unmarried, mothers and their one-year-old children. Virtually all births were covered by...
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