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5 reasons to cultivate strategic business partnerships

Insperity

When the mandates of the Affordable Care Act hit the marketplace in 2013, for example, insurance brokers nationwide were challenged with delivering additional value to their customers to offset rising healthcare costs for employers.

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Appetite for hybrid working shows no sign of letting up at large firms

Workplace Insight

The ongoing advancements in technology have made remote collaboration more feasible and seamless than ever before. Collaboration tools have become essential in ensuring the coexistence of the digital and physical workplace, both internally with employees and externally with clients.

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Context and Care vs. Isolate and Control: An Interview on the Dilemmas of Global Mental Heath with Arthur Kleinman

Mad in America

Healthcare insurers would much rather pay social workers to do psychotherapy than they would a clinical psychologist or psychiatrist because social workers are a lot cheaper in providing care. and one of the primary reasons I moved was the constant existential anxiety of not having healthcare despite having health insurance.

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A Case for Parallel Mental Health Care

Mad in America

However, the problem of smartphones is in some ways particularly emblematic of the perverse dynamics of our technological society. Almost every advance in technology makes corresponding demands on the human person. The servant becomes the master. In short, the same effects appear regardless of the character of the intervention.

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The Clinical, Social, and Cultural Harm of an Iatrogenic Psychiatry

Mad in America

However, rather than people becoming enraged and politically engaged to change carcinogenic environments, an extremely powerful medical-pharmaceutical industrial complex has controlled the societal narrative to focus—not on eliminating environmental-societal causes of cancer—but on expensive cancer treatments. between 1990 and 2019.”

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Leaders are forgetting about this $30 billion problem

Work Life

It’s often considered an insurance policy of sorts, a reason to be kept around. For example, they shared that a leading pharmaceutical company was managing the divestiture of assets by asking team members to share insights in individual Microsoft Word documents. And most of what they know leaves the organization when they do.

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Much of U.S. Healthcare Is Broken: How to Fix It (Chapter 1, Part 1)

Mad in America

Blaming greedy lawyers for our healthcare cost problem comes under the same category as blaming modern medical advances, the expensive new technology and medicines to identify—and at times—cure diseases, and other common “red herrings” in the healthcare industry. healthcare as well.