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- Health Care Reform: Stop Focusing on the Cost
- Massachusetts? existing universal health care plan has become a prototype for current reform proposals now in Congress. But Jonathan Gruber, a key architect of the program, says to make federal reform work, Congress needs to give up trying to control costs for now. ...
- Articles 2009-08-06
- Cost Control Is Still Nowhere in Sight, Experts Say
- The Democratic proposals for controlling healthcare costs won't have much impact in the short term, experts say. Unless they can do something about spending, they will accomplish little. by Ken Terry
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- Reviving Managed Care: Focused Medical Management (Finally) Pairs Quality Care With Measurable Cost Control
- This article describes about the year 2001 which was an ugly year for those trying to contain medical costs as a 12% inflation rate kept health plan executives up at night, swinging at demons. Some forecasters cannot see an end to the cost inflation. They point to a vicious whirlwind...
- White papers 2002-05-01
- Building on the Job-Based Health Care System: What Would It Take?
- The paper presents a blueprint for a reform, along with design choices and their implications, which would improve access, cost control, and quality. Requiring employers to provide coverage or at least to help workers obtain group insurance, combined with income-based premium subsidies, expanded public programs, and backup "insurance exchanges," would...
- White papers 2003-08-27
- Expanding Beyond Professional Service Revenue: Experiences, Regulatory Issues and Lessons Learned
- Many medical groups continue to enjoy high levels of profitability despite stagnant or declining reimbursement under Medicare Part B and many commercial payer arrangements. Previous studies of better performing groups have shown that cost control measures, by themselves, rarely result in increased long-term profitability. Better performing medical groups pay attention...
- White papers 2003-01-01
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- Vertical Coordination of Marketing Systems: Lessons From the Poultry, Egg and Pork Industries
- The poultry, egg, and pork industries have taken significant steps to improve the control of production either through contracting and/or vertical integration. These improved controls were motivated by the emergence of new specialized large-scale production technologies that placed a premium on quality control and the efficient use of information. The...
- White papers 2002-04-01
- Polycom Inc. Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Yes, thank you. [Operator Instruction]. Our first question comes from the line of John Anthony from Cowen & Company. Please proceed with your question. John Anthony - Cowen & Company Good afternoon, guys. Couple of question, but before we get started did...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-18
- Outsource Your Way Through | BTalk Australia
- Tom Christopoul, CEO of consulting firm Resources Global Professionals, says his Australian clients are seeing the economy starting to bottom out, although he admits that it's difficult to really see the short term future. On today’s BTalk Australia he tells Phil Dobbie how his firm has traditionally...
- Blog posts 2009-03-24
- E-Commerce: A New Business Model for the Food Supply/Demand Chain
- The use of electronic commerce for quality control and cost cutting efficiencies by the food and agricultural industries in the United States is the focus of this paper. This paper is about the development of e-commerce in the food industry, the economic concepts, and goals that it meets, and the...
- White papers 2003-02-01
- Establishing a Strategic Partnering Relationship
- Strategic partnership agreements—whether short- or long-term—allow organizations to take advantage of market opportunities and respond to customer needs in collaboration, doing it more efficiently and effectively than they could alone."Collaboration is the process by which partners adopt a high level of purposeful cooperation to maintain a trading relationship over time....
- Articles 2007-11-19
- Satyam Computers Services Ltd. F2Q08 (Qtr End 9/30/07f) Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Thank you sir. Ladies and gentlemen, we will now begin the question and answer session. Please note that all participants who have logged into the call are allowed to ask questions and there is no specific priority for participants in India and the ones outside...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-24
- SAP Q2 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionStefan Gruber Thank you, Henning. We now have time for Q&A. Again, as a reminder for those who followed the event through the Internet or by phone, please do send us questions to investor@sap.com. And we hope we can have a healthy mix between questions we take here...
- Earnings calls 2007-07-19
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