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The Innovator’s DNA and Health Care Improvement

Author: Malathi Srinivasan, MD, FACP

Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Issue 1/2014

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Over the past several months, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has endured a painful population roll-out to try to expand health insurance for the nation, plagued by governmental shut downs, software malfunction, and mistake-laden information shuttled between enrollment websites and insurers. Critics have pointed out the potential for ballooning health care costs, the inability of the current American health system to absorb the flux of the newly insured, and increased costs borne by healthy individuals to offset the cost of catastrophic care and care for the sick. …

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Title: The Innovator’s DNA and Health Care Improvement
Author: Malathi Srinivasan, MD, FACP
Publication date: 01-01-2014
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine / Issue 1/2014
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Electronic ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-013-2694-8

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