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Article #372Re: Health Care Initiative
From: Ralph Finch
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 1994 03:23
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 1994 03:23
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> Let's say that ordinary people means the average or most of the > people. Most of the people do not own stock and of those who do > own stock, most My guess is that quite a lot of people actually do own stock, through their pension funds. > of them don't own enough to make a smidgen of an impact on the > policies of insurance company executives. Dilution of power is very desirable. Collectively, stock holders can have power, especially if they are informed. Even better, *customers* of companies have lots of power (again, collectively). Ultimately if customers don't like a company they can walk away from it. How does one walk away from govt; especially in-your-face socialist govt? > On the other hand, an elected person, in this case the health > insurance commissioner, Very bad. No one person should have that much power. -- Ralph Finch 916-653-8268/voice 916-653-6077/fax rfinch@dop.water.ca.gov <- finger for PGP public key Any opinions expressed are my own; they do not represent my employer
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1052e3,a47d3a655857759c X-Google-Attributes: gid1052e3,public X-Google-Thread: 102fd5,a47d3a655857759c X-Google-Attributes: gid102fd5,public X-Google-Thread: 10a89e,a47d3a655857759c X-Google-Attributes: gid10a89e,public X-Google-Thread: 104eff,a47d3a655857759c X-Google-Attributes: gid104eff,public X-Google-Thread: 1082c3,a47d3a655857759c X-Google-Attributes: gid1082c3,public X-Google-Thread: 105030,a47d3a655857759c X-Google-Attributes: gid105030,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-10-27 22:22:59 PST Newsgroups: ba.news,sac.general,ca.news,ucd.life,ca.politics,ba.politics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!news.ucdavis.edu!sunnyboy.water.ca.gov!sunnyboy!rfinch From: rfinch@water.ca.gov (Ralph Finch) Subject: Re: Health Care Initiative In-Reply-To: miballar@leland.Stanford.EDU's message of 27 Oct 1994 00:52:21 GMT Message-ID: <RFINCH.94Oct27192316@venice.water.ca.gov> Sender: news@sunnyboy.water.ca.gov Organization: Calif. Dept. of Water Resources References: <sacbeeCxy4rL.A59@netcom.com> <38jife$jps@mark.ucdavis.edu> <38k5e7$96g@nntp.stanford.edu> <38m1o2$ee0@mark.ucdavis.edu> <38mtk5$rag@nntp.Stanford.EDU> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 1994 03:23:16 GMT Lines: 24