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1441 National Jobs for All Coalition web site -- rank: 1000

June, Your work is extremely important - economic justice is vital to all. In your figures regarding unemployment, do you include disabled people (blind, deaf, etc) who are now on disability benefits but would like to have a job? You may be interested to know that I cover this aspect of unemployment in my book, Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract. Here is an announcement for the book. Best, Marta Russell Common Courage Press announces: Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sun Aug 30 19:37:21 PDT 1998

1442 PCC press release -- 8/18/98 -- rank: 1000

MScoleman at aol.com wrote: > The problem I have with the right to die is that most people want to die > because the medical community has failed to make them comfortable during their > chronic diseases. F'rinstance, doctors routinely don't order pain medication > for elderly people in pain. Why is beyond my comprehension, but they don't. > If you're going to be in such pain you can't function, you tend to want to > die. I can understand wanting the ability to pull the plug ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Aug 22 19:25:25 PDT 1998

1443 Fwd: PCC press release -- 8/18/98 -- rank: 1000

> Thought some of you might be interested in how some physicians are responding to the "Right to Die" legislation passed in Oregon.Marta Russell > Physicians for Compassionate Care > PO Box 6042 > Portland OR 97228 > 503-533-8154; Fax 503-533-0429 > > Affirming an ethic that all human life is inherently valuable > > PRESS RELEASE--8/18/98 > PCC Responds to State Reports of Doctor-assisted Suicides > > The state of Oregon has released a report about t ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Aug 22 16:31:08 PDT 1998

1444 Sorry! -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: > I tried to find your book the other night at Cody's, Moe's, and then > B&N, but nobody had it. A friend said that they got a copy from Cody's but maybe they are out. The publisher is Common Courage Press, the distributor is Logan out of Chicago. You can order direct by calling 800 497-3207. > I will keep looking around locally, but in the meantime I have to ask > about Eleanor Smith. > This has to be the same Eleanor Smith I worked with, or rather under, ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Aug 22 12:51:58 PDT 1998

1445 Sorry! -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: > Marta Russell-thanks for the healthcare posts unfortuneatly I couldn't jump > in then. I'm sure you know about the Families > USA stuff, yes? Yes they are really good on mismanaged care. > Biz Wk has a page talking about how the Canadian model, > which used to be good, is falling apart. That's their spin, but I don't > remember what they were saying in 91-2 when that rumor was very popular. I > do know that a friend of mine just got back from there and she did ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Aug 21 16:18:38 PDT 1998

1446 "A Messenger of death at Princeton" -- rank: 1000

> This is a retyping of the OP-ED article, "A Messenger of death at > Princeton", by David S. Oderberg, Lecturer in philosophy at the > University of Reading, England, which appeared in THE WASHINGTON TIMES, > on June 30, 1998, page A17. > And all emphases are in the original: > > "Princeton University has just announced its appointment of the Australian > philosopher Peter Singer to the Ira W. DeCamp Professorship of Bioethics at > the Universit ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Aug 12 10:13:34 PDT 1998

1447 Soft privatization/efficiency -- rank: 1000

Enrique Diaz-Alvarez wrote: > Jessica wrote: > >> If I take your logic far enough I can make it suggest the way to improve health care - socialised > > health care - is to cut it further. > > Enrique: > No. Decide democratically what fraction of available resources should be > allocated to health care. then use them in a manner that maximizes the > health and well being of the population. Another example to consider. In the early 90s in Oregon the population vot ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Aug 11 21:29:39 PDT 1998

1448 Soft privatization -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: > Marta :<<Why go that far? Being in debt is not a bad thing - hasn't the > country > been in debt since its inception? The debt itself was not at a precarious > level under Reagan (at $2.7 trillion) relative to the GDP, and it is even > less so today. There is a difference between going into debt for good > reasons and for bad ones. The case can be made for running up the debt when > it benefits all of society.>> > > Max: You're preac ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Aug 10 22:59:02 PDT 1998

1449 Concord Coalition -- rank: 1000

Tom, Anything you may have on the Concord Coalition (especially re beating up on crips and infirm) please forward my way. I've been watching Boyden Gray, White House counsel for George Bush who signed the Americans with Disabilities Act. He befriended many naive Republican disabled people by supporting the ADA and he is now behind Citizens for a Sound Economy which is basically out to destroy entitlements. I have felt for some time that George Bush signed the ADA because it he viewed it as a ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Aug 10 22:43:14 PDT 1998

1450 Soft privatization -- rank: 1000

Enrique, Thanks for responding so thoroughly about the public health care system in Spain and UK. I have a couple more comments to make to your post. In the UK it is fairly common that those with money can buy whatever access they need to get the health care they need. > Marta > > I think that it is dangerous to start making health care judgements based on quality of life - > > Enrique:Perhaps it is dangerous, but I see no alternative. How else do we make > those judgements? &g ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Aug 10 17:10:55 PDT 1998

1451 Soft privatization -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: > Dear Marta, Jessica, et al.: > > Properly understood, the standard idea of efficiency > presents no problem for progressive advocacy. Like > other principles, of course, it can be distorted > beyond recognition. > Well yes, and it frequently does. There is the example of Larry McAffee who broke his neck and became a quadriplegic. The state of Georgia refused to supply him with an attendant so he could remain at home. They shipped him all over the coun ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Aug 10 11:36:26 PDT 1998

1452 Soft privatization -- rank: 1000

Enrique Diaz-Alvarez wrote: > Mathew Forstater wrote: > > > > Public sector activity should not be judged by the same criteria as private sector activity. > > Of course not. Nobody is saying it should. But the fact is that > resources _are_ limited, even for the public sector. All universal > health care systems, for example, have to make tough allocation > decisions, which means that some people who need operations get them > right away, others have to wait for ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sun Aug 9 23:28:21 PDT 1998

1453 Soft privatization -- rank: 1000

Mathew Forstater wrote: > I have a working paper on this if anyone's interested. I am. Can you email it??????? Marta

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sun Aug 9 23:13:17 PDT 1998

1454 Soft privatization -- rank: 1000

Jessica wrote: > No, on second thought I still think it has no place in that consideration whatsoever - at least in > countries like the U.S. and Canada. There isplenty of wealth in these countries. > > Jess As we all know cost efficiency does get used against social welfare programs for political reasons. Currently, every expenditure proposed in congress must come up with its method of payment - from somewhere else in the budget, this is referred to as PAY-GO. Cost-benefit analysi ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sun Aug 9 12:24:35 PDT 1998

1455 The Nation - Selected Editorial -- rank: 1000

Doyle, Thank you for your insightful remarks and recommendation to read the book. As the Columbus Free Press reviewer Bob Powers said of the book "Rights of the disabled attract little attention. It is human nature to look away. " http://www.freepress.org/books/ramps But business dominated disability policy - what happens to those who are perceived as unable to produce for the capitalists - is truly a barometer for the "progress" or lack of it in our over-capitalized civili ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Aug 8 13:53:13 PDT 1998