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Unagidon is the pen name of an executive from the insurance industry who writes on heath care costs among other things. The following articles are relevant to the area of heath care and capitalism. The first is a fine overview but each of the others develops some aspect of the puzzle.  WHY HEALTH CARE WON'T BE A FREE MARKET Health care will never become a true free market— it lacks both price and quality transparency. 1. Insurers and providers collude to keep the public in the dark about cost:   Commercially insured patients pay, on average, about 145 percent of their costs, i.e. they are subsidizing Medicare, Medicaid and “charity” patients.. 2. Commercially insured patients are subsidizing the other person’s choice of hospital as well as their basic treatment. Any attempt to find a cheaper service has no effect at all on the total price. 3. Big expensive hospitals are buying smaller, less expensive ones, and apply their big-hospital expensive contract rates to th

Gathering Topic : BRINGING THE WORKERS ON BOARD The Catholic Roots of Codetermination by Matt Mazewski Commonweal March 22, 2019 Issue Place and Time:   in the Youth Room on the second floor of the school building at St Dominic Church in Shaker Heights, 7:00pm - 8:30pm.   Meeting Place Directions Saint Dominic Church is two blocks west of Warrensville Road and one block north of Chagrin Blvd, between Van Aken Blvd and Norwood Road, in Shaker Heights. The parking lot is accessed from eastbound Van Aken, across from the RTA station. It’s about two miles west of the Chagrin Blvd exit from I-271 and about 3 miles north of 480 via exit 25B to Northfield Rd. Additional Materials: WARREN: ACCOUNTABLE CAPITALISM ACT ONE PAGER Her legal model is the benefit corporation; WHAT IS A BENEFIT CORPORATION? Jack 's way of evaluating her idea comes from Greenleaf's book Servant Leadership. He was a senior e