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811 "Popular" summary of Managed Care -- rank: 1000

Jim Westrich wrote: > HMO’s continue to lose money This of course is a test of efficiency if looked the organisation is looked at in isolation. Socialised health care may be more efficient and save money for the society as a whole. Chris Burford London

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Thu Mar 4 15:41:29 PST 1999

812 Health - towards salaried general doctors -- rank: 1000

The British National Health Service was formed 50 years ago by the post war Labour Government linking together various hospitals and reimbursing General Practitioners (GP's) as stand- alone independent practioners. After efforts by the last Conservative Government to strengthen GP's preferably organised in group practices, as surrogates purchasers of health care for their patients, thereby introducing an internal market, the new government has succeeded in bringing GP's together in primary care ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Thu Mar 4 15:38:14 PST 1999

813 Tobacco: choking safety improvements -- rank: 1000

>From New Scientist of 6th March [tobacco capital cannot even innovate] CIGARETTE manufacturers abandoned dozens of technologies that could have reduced the death toll from their products, according to a new report from two leading British anti-smoking groups. It claims that tobacco barons feared that marketing a "safer" cigarette would amount to an admission that smoking is dangerous. The report, from Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) and the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, details ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Wed Mar 3 14:03:23 PST 1999

814 Tobacco - legal defeat in UK -- rank: 1000

This Saturday one of the solicitors, Martin Day, in the collective action against tobacco companies in Britain, wrote an article in the Guardian reporting a major set-back for this initiative under conditions of English Law. One of the conditions of the agreement is apparently that he cannot criticise the tobacco firms. The action was taken under the "no win no fee" conditional scheme which is only just starting to spread in Britain. Martin Day alleges that the judge (Mr Justice Wright ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon Mar 1 23:43:20 PST 1999

815 Tobacco - brand stretching, market control -- rank: 1000

>From the site Tobacco Control Resource Centre, funded by World Health Organisation, European Commission and British Medical Association www.tobacco-control.org/ Brand stretching .. you could probably guess who owns Benson and Hedges coffee and coffee shops. Woking (UK) based "World Investment Company" (WIC) is licensee for the Benson and Hedges coffee, soon to go on sale in the UK. Action on Smoking and Health (ASH, UK) and the UK's Health Education Authority have both informed the ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon Mar 1 23:01:52 PST 1999

816 HMOs & erosion of privacy -- rank: 1000

The British National Health Service is looking more not less stable 18 months into the New Labour Government, which has dropped talk of an internal market. The piece below illustrates IMO the impossibility of costing items of health care to a fine degree, and the pressure for monopoly. The achilles heel of the US system appears to be insurance, and it is logical that they have to share information on risk. The Labour government has not reinstated Crown Immunity against damages. These are now amo ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon Mar 1 16:01:12 PST 1999

817 Zizek Zeit (in English) -- rank: 1000

At 04:27 29/06/99 -0400, you wrote: > > >NATO, the Left Hand of God? > >On the Self Deception of the West, or > >Why the Conflict in the Balkans Will Not Come to an End Anytime Soon > >by Slavoj Zizek Fine piece. Chris Burford London

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Date:	Wed Jun 30 16:16:20 PDT 1999

818 Operacija Potkovica claimed systematic -- rank: 1000

At 13:00 29/06/99 -0400, Seth wrote: >So we can conclude that behind closed doors, the leaders of your >humanitarian campaign were having heated discussions about the very high >likelihood that their war would cause the very war crimes you are now >rightly decrying. Not my humanitarian campaign, thank you. Self censorship went on among the left for a number of reasons. One was against hearing anything that could also be heared on the bourgeois media. This created a quite one-sided ap ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 30 15:58:06 PDT 1999

819 Operacija Potkovica claimed systematic -- rank: 1000

I actually altered the thread title to include the word "claimed" to take into account the very point that Enrique Diaz-Alvarez makes. However the Observer is a shrewd investigative paper. Do any serious leftists now doubt that crimes against humanity were committed by Serbian troops with the systematic aid of fascists, in defence of the sovereignty of a Christian nation to expel up to a million muslim inhabitants? The Serbian Orthodox church itself is now almost explitly criticising t ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 29 00:08:22 PDT 1999

820 Kennedy in Belgrade -- rank: 1000

Nigel Kennedy, that is. In a very personal gesture, Nigel Kennedy, the aged British boy violin virtuoso, has flown to Belgrade at his own expense to give without any fee, a concert tonight with the Belgrade Philharmonic to the people of Serbia, at a special price of about 1 pound per ticket. It quickly sold out. He said he had given concerts in aid of Kosovo refugees and he wanted to make a gesture to Serb people rather than their government. Exactly what he means by it, and how it will be recei ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Jun 27 12:26:27 PDT 1999

821 Operacija Potkovica claimed systematic -- rank: 1000

Seized Serb documents link Milosevic to mass killings John Sweeney in Pristina Sunday June 27, 1999 The Observer Hundreds of documents uncovered after the Yugoslav army retreated prove that the ethnic cleansing of Kosovo was meticulously planned and ordered from Belgrade. The papers provide crucial evidence linking massacres that claimed an estimated 14,000 lives to Serb army generals and police commanders all the way up to President Slobodan Milosevic. Serbia's security forces kept or destroyed ...

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Date:	Sun Jun 27 03:44:59 PDT 1999

822 Fisk -- rank: 1000

>And I decided that this was not the time for my terrible questions. Perhaps it is not the time on these lists either. Chris Burford London

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Date:	Sat Jun 26 10:50:01 PDT 1999

823 Marxian vs. bourgeios categories [was Marx on Smith] -- rank: 1000

I have challenged Doug in the past on the Marxian law of value, and I have to say I know of nowhere where he has denied it. Indeed he has asserted his support for it. Too much focus sometimes falls on the individual position of a moderator, in a way which is just not realistic. If Doug keeps debate moving along here, continues to publish LBO, and continues to authorise reprints of his detailed description of Wall Street, we will still have more than enough reason to thank him. Marxist debate has ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 26 01:19:07 PDT 1999

824 Criticism of Köln Reformism -- rank: 1000

Extracts from a long and detailed analysis by Joe Hanlon, of Jubilee 2000 Coalition, which IMO shows this useful reform is of course also throughly reformist. The valuable thing is the pressure to have any discussion at all like that of the Köln conference. The technical criticisms here are an essential part of now exposing its reformist nature. Chris Burford _________________________________________________ A series of very confusing numbers have been put by the G7 in its 18 June statement and ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 25 14:41:37 PDT 1999

825 Helms weeps for gold -- rank: 1000

Jessie Helms, champion of the ruling by Congress to cut off all US funds from any international agency that discusses global taxation, has discovered the the demonetisation of gold will harm the poorest of the world's poor. His heartfield opposition is also in the interests of certain regional US producers in the good old fashioned tradition of US pork barrel politics. Well, if sales of gold and debt relief will not help the world's poorest, perhaps we had better start discussing global taxation ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 24 22:38:26 PDT 1999