The single payer system would probably expand choice in form of doctor and
possibly some treatments/coverage -- Wall St Journal made the case a month or
two back that most of those insured under private health insurance schemes are
already substantially choice-constrained. And what choice is no
From: The Development GAP
Subject: WB AFRICA REPORT--DGAP & OXFAM STATEMENTS
For immediate release
16 March 1994
Contact: Ross Hammmond
(202) 898-1566
WORLD BANK COVER-UP OF ROLE IN AFRICA CRISIS CONTINUES
Institution Creating Poverty, Not Alleviating It
Washington, DC -- The 12 March relea
I would argue that attending to aggregate wage measures _understates_
the dramatic earnings trends, since those at the bottom of the
wage structure have seen their hourly earnings decline fastest
(and those at the top have seen rises).
--Alan G. Isaac
--From Doug Henwood's Original message
Distance from the base year does complicate the CPI, but the GDP
fixed-weight consumer deflators, which are updated every 5 years, don't
tell that different a story from the CPI. And the implicit deflators,
which are updated constantly depending on spending practices, don't tell
that different a
The CPI does try to make quality adjustments. Whether the BLS succeeds is
a matter of controversy, but they do try. As an aside, I talk to a lot of
the faceless bureaucrats at BLS, BEA, Census, and elsewhere who produce
these figs, and I've always been impressed with their openness, honesty,
a
Yes the ECI includes the cost of health insurance and other fringe
benefits. It is, of course, what employers care about, but it's no
measure of worker welfare. The earnings numbers in the productivity
series do the same thing. The BLS's official "real earnings" series uses
the CPI-W (W for wa
:On Mon, 4 Apr 1994, Jim Devine wrote:
:
:> With the single-payer plan, "the government, not individuals,
:> would decide what health care individuals would receive, and
:> government would pay the providers of that health care."
:
:The "government" (presumably some quasi-democratic, quasi-medical
