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33% of British criminals were dying en route to Australia in the 1700s.

Britain switched from paying sea captains for every passenger who walked on the ship to paying them for every passenger who walked off. Immediately, the survival rate shot up to 99%.

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Retaining and rewarding caregivers: Demand for home healthcare workers should grow rapidly over the next ~8 years. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that between 2018-28, the number of jobs will increase 36%. Average growth across industries is 5%. That's set to exacerbate existing issues for personal care providers, namely, retention and tu... See more

Aashay Sanghvi • Not Found

Those are promising signs. On the other hand, the fundamental economics of the value-based arrangement still aren’t clear. If fee-for-service turns out to more profitable for both payer and provider, then value-based care won’t survive outside of Medicare Advantage. And there have been failures in the past, as cited above.

Steve Hardgrove • The Disruptors, Part 1: DTC Insurance

Best-practice steam engine technology could have saved the equivalent of a quarter of labor costs at most plants. Inefficient furnaces were oxidizing away huge amounts of metal. The Germans were pulling ahead in the use of overhead belt conveyors. It was absurdly wasteful to support 119 rail-shape standards. Better management of furnace linings, mo

Charles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy

Everyone knew that this other child existed: books on how to choose a wet nurse actually advised parents to verify the health of a candidate by examining her newborn. A mother without a healthy infant had no credentials; her milk was automatically suspect. It was rare to hire a wet nurse whose baby had died. Her baby was supposed to die after she w

Nicholas Day • Baby Meets World: Suck, Smile, Touch, Toddle: A Journey Through Infancy

So a company that employs six hundred thousand persons is allowed to wreck the health of citizens with impunity, and to benefit from the implied protection of bailouts (just like American car companies), whereas artisans like hairdressers and cobblers do not get such immunity.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Incerto 4-Book Bundle

transforming medicine from a healing-oriented moral practice into a diagnosis-oriented science focused on discernible, and replicable, test results.

Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness

Later, she and Beth would learn that they were being exposed to more than hydrogen sulfide. Up at the waste pond, workers in hazmat suits and respirators were applying 819 pounds of a liquid carcinogen and biocide to the sludge in an effort to control the outbreak, while just hundreds of feet away, the women worked outside in T-shirts.