Competition Suffers Most If UnitedHealth Exits Obamacare In 2017: Analysis

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UnitedHealth Group Inc. signage stands in front of company headquarters in Minnetonka, Minnesota, U.S., on Wednesday, March 9, 2016. UnitedHealth Group Inc.'s OptumRx unit struck an agreement to ease customers' access to drugs through Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc.'s drugstores, a move to help the business compete with rival pharmacy benefit managers. Photographer: Mike Bradley/Bloomberg via Getty Images

 

Reducing Long-Term Unemployment: Perfect Is the Enemy of the Good

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2016/04/19/Reducing-Long-Term-Unemployment-Perfect-Enemy-Good?utm_campaign=541c47950e351dbe08037e5f&utm_source=boomtrain&utm_medium=email&bt_alias=eyJ1c2VySWQiOiIwNDVmNzIzYS1mZDhiLTQ0YTktYTU0MC03YTJhYzZjYWViY2QifQ%3D%3D

Long-term unemployment takes a considerable toll on individuals and their families, and it has broader social and economic consequences as well. Yet Congress has all but ignored this problem.

 

GOP Promises a Plan to Replace Obamacare … Again

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‘Innovation Center’ Tries to Reinvent Medicare

http://altarum.org/health-policy-blog/innovation-center-tries-to-reinvent-medicare

Self-Discovery

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/04/18/us/politics/ap-us-reinventing-medicare.html?_r=2&utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=28546798&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8-_QJHvlQf3ncoPLfUIxBW8nmcJusVUM0tA1nGSU7XVJRgzkLgh2zRmOdqkgAqn34NAbWPmnGDWUMPs4fnfi_u3u_08A&_hsmi=28546798

America’s Secret Weapon

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/americas-secret-weapon-bill-gates?trk=eml-b2_content_ecosystem_digest-hero-14-null&midToken=AQHcpzuK5TbmJA&fromEmail=fromEmail&ut=3lEZJsOEg1ATc1

America’s Secret Weapon

What is new is that more countries than ever are competing for global leadership, and they know the value of innovation. Since 2000, South Korea’s research and development spending (measured as a percentage of GDP) has gone up 90 percent. China’s has doubled. The United States’ has essentially flatlined. It’s great that the rest of the world is committing more, but if the United States is going to maintain its leading role, it needs to up its game.