From the library of The Economist's Unacknowledged Giant, Norman Macrae The Economist April 28, 1984 The editor asked Norman Macrae to spend 4 weeks studying
international healthcare staitstics, so as to report what is becoming the largest industry in many rich countries is being
organised in the most economically efficient way. Here are Macrae's conclusions (update 2010s "smartest decade
for human race?" debate at http://normanmacrae.ning.com ) Better care
at one eighth the cost? All
the Western democracies are see-sawing between different sorts of heathcare crises, which they are trying to meet by slightly
modified versions of policies that have caused more expensive difficulties somehwere else. Great unpopularity falls on anyone
who points this out. Almost every advanced county's system of medical finance is bringing results that are the opposite of
those predicted by its politicians, professed by its docors, believed by its voters and hoped for by its saints. In consequence most governments are facing
the problems and securing the achievments that they and their detractors both expected least. After the standard-bearing advocates
of socialist versus free market medical systems have charged each other with levelled lances through tje political fog, the
British socialist finds he is pig-sticking the poor with a cheap National Health Service that has embarassinbgly seen mortality
ratios move further in favour of the upper middle classes, while the American taxpayer finds he is paying between four
and six times as much for the health care of his poorest and sickest old-fellow citizen as the British taxpayer does. |
.Fall 2010 rsvp info@worldcitizen.tv if your capital has a radical innovator of affordability of healthcare for all 1 *cam is the first social business
professor of linkages between microcredit and microhealth' and so responsibility for yunus healthy and wealthy youth scotland
- (dont know any greater fortune young job creating scots could have in 2010s) 2 yunus and ingrid are 2 of
the first 3 first bankers (for youth health as well as poor parents) with world scaling system designs of likages
between youth jobs and health; however in kenya if my memory serves: ingrid's number 2 in empowering www.jamiibora.org is wife of kenya's minister of health 3 sam is empowerer of peoples summits ( www.results.org has its 30th birthday next year in keepoing us congress grounded -two thirds of congress have confirmed yunus testimony next
year as genius economist who maps how to do credit and health as lifebllood of any nation) - results started
up as the first grassroots network of end hunger across usa which oddly the NY's and Lynee Twists' Hunger Project
was doing internationally but not much within usa; results were then entrusted 1997 with first worldiwde microbanking
network summits that became the greatest continuous model for human networking of our 1984-2024 generation; I dont have queen
sofia's or hilary clinton's or obama's email but clearly all 3 are interested in whether we invest in health of youth
with the global financial system which 2011 may irreversibly sustain or break; lisa is organiser of summit in nov 2011
queen sofia is guest hosting (out of spain which the EU has so far been designed to collapse) -so may
also be a once in a generation (dad message to you http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU1qSQzTN7k not filmed is fact that romano prodi was iytalian 1976 translator of enetrpreneurial revolution) discuss future
of all micro summits of 2010s grounded in life critical info flows; nazrul has been seconded from bangaldesh to help
spain; he also accompanied mrs begum to the UN prize giving which spanish womens networks arranged 18 months ago since
history makes it unclear whether microcredit would have been the greatest womens and youths movement without mrs begum's practices
(led by dr yunus extreme conflict resoloution mentoring as well as innovative curiosity; and professors latifee work
with patiently reforming conventional constitutions) 4 *jonathan & lesley & 6000 would-be
social business entrepreneurs hub (the only big capitals ER-network on an 18 months doubling moores curve) next
"impossible become possible connections if right time people action place" between capi\tals and global vilages,parisians
*estelle www.micious.org and charlotte spent 2 months (summer 09) in bangladesh reporting yunus 69th birthday party wishes (that
I unfairly asked sofia and mostifa to stir up with grameen and brac- who have just published proceedings of their
recent microhealth conference) with charlotte majoring in health and estelle majoring in mobile technology and tv films
with vivienne (deepest film-maker producer of 2010s exciting decade); estelle is also chief youth reporter of all french partnerships
of yunus that we can reach 5 kazi huque connects grameen-intel www.grameenintel.com partnership whose first focus is mobile connectivity of information critical to monitoring which mothers are in mortal
danger during pregnancy 6 *chris granville (my brother in law) was human face of accounting for BUPA (which
was one of the few health insurances to have originated out of community-grounded coop models) for about a decade (prior
to that sainsburys- a major family owner of the economist); he now consults on sustainabile healthcare purchasing to
various NHS authorities; *charlotte's in final year aqt cambridge; also helps me searcgh archives ofn forbidden questions
dad raised in old days when bbc woul only dialogue around biggest social issues on one-diomensional party political dimensions
and which therefore need re-raising now; eg dads infamous 1984 healthcare survey 28 april 1984 Economist friont cover - patient
in bed; his case statistics hannging over from of bed franme replaced by expoential graph of costs of NHS - and health-economics conversation
opener: better care at one eighth the cost? almost every advanced country's system of medical finace is bring resuklts
that are the opposite of thise predicted by its politicians, professed by itys doctors, believd by its voters and hoped for
by its saints 6a chris granville visted glasgow twice in 2010 and eric meade also travelled half way
round the world to celebrate yunus 3 days in glasgow - declaration of interdependence weekend 2010; he brings alvin tofflers
future schocking scenarios ; health is ever present in my famkily's readings of tofflers work: 7 monica is
dr yunus's daughter; she can be the real thing of I'd like tio teach the world to sing in perfect harmony; trying to do that
after the vietnam war with the hglobal market platfrorm of a by then fattening sugar drink does not seem to me to be
as smart brandsing as trying to connect youth and community celebrations with 2010s most exciting youthworldbanking (ie fee
market of banking) and since 2006 freeing global media of every market which is what 2050 readers understand dr yunus social
busiess genre to invite networkers to do 8 *judy pitt is one of the uk's top 10 florence nightingales; I am sure
she and barbara would know who most of the other 8 in UK are if they could skype 9 paris collaborates around
yunus because of the danone communities (a an emrging medium with far more imporatrnce to future capitals than the dismal
tv ad spot that dads 1976 entrepreneurial recvolution identifiued as the destroyed of free markets in the west's 3rq auarter
of 20th C) portal amd major youth festivals that olivier has practice responsibility for; this also conects emerging
knowledge on social busiess stockmarkets the way french entrepreneurial blood would fight for; somehow we need to help empower
the french into european union 2.1; they have always been its core orchestartors and agricultural products social busienss
investments passes through their elysses- in spite of danish media's attempts to divert your minds, breaking news from
the elysse is work every family with a future attending to http://www.muhammadyunus.org/Search/?ordering=&searchphrase=all&searchword=sarkozy10 best if you looked up *sir keith peters in who'who- restored cambridge university's reputation for science through
medicine; known as the best UK leader any long term project team can get- some (eg open source genome) have been
awarded nobel prizes for open soucing medical knowledge projects 11 *jeff devlin kept me sane in 10 years of
working at gliobal managemen t consutancies run by accounatnts or by non-marketing global ad agent\ owners like martin
sorrell; whether I recipriocated maybe dispiuted jeff's 2 main practice areas I know of are medical and EU
though he's into supply chains and would see the internet as capable of chamging anything my dad though we could 12
paul komesaroff out of melbourne mixes his careers as maths and medical person with his ;post 9-11 practice of global reconciliation
bring testifiers together from 100 countries including mary robinson and queen of jordan; somehow I gatecrashed his first
GRN in 2003 as bartender as was invited to be GRN's regional newsletter; in dece,mber 2004: 500 of us met in delhi to
get an update on what gandhi would suggest we practice; conference proceedings publications could disrupted cos week after
this summit the tsunami hit; my greatest mentor in paul's network modjaba sadria connects cultural understanding
between iran, london, japan, china and canada; during yunus first book tour he played the main riole in london and new york-also
spending 60 minutes with dr yunus on train from NY to PA http://www.youtube.com/caplinski#p/u/14/idn4vCtJ0Hs paul studied at the sorboone to be a doctotr but found he didnt like blood 13 benedicte hosted the lunch
out of which global social busienss parrtering emerged paris 2005; along with her 20+ year long friend emannuel at danone
she has been plotting human sustainability; emannuel's first work experience was with mother therese; benedict's a microcredit
in s.america 14 borje's swedish family tree is in community banking; his own career is mentor to the sigificant
per cent of swedes who volunteer abroad; he was first temporary director of yunus partbership at Asian Instiute of Technology;
paul rose is bbc's reporter on oceans, poles and microcenergy- shares microenergy's judging panel with prince charles and
lord sainsbury's eldest daughter www.ashdenawards.org - paul is successor to bbc';s david attenborough whose son and I were in the same class at school; david had this oddly opposite
attitude to dad which I as an enx[poential risk modelller call kindly but terrifyingly over-respectful to command
and control powers- david attenborough: media like bbc is so powerful that you as an inmdividual presnter should not
question conventional wisdom (eg dangers of filthy climate) until its proven to be untrue; of course the histiory of
the bbc is a sad one (if the scottish invention of tv had 10 years more experimentation before world war 2 came along the
idea that the social business of public braiodcasting should be controled by gov's officail secrets might not have spun tv
media the way it did; ask if you need dad's youtube on that piece of bad luck); ironically david's brother rrichard attenborough
directed the movie "gandhi"; sadly rischard lost a grandchiold in te tsunami CONNECTING DOTS trust
me energy and health are connecetd; as is the free university concept that was first entrepreneured out of s.africa
by lesley's friend taddy blecher which the grameen nursing college is first component of bangladesh free womens university
of medicine; *mostofa is the only youth violager from bangaldesh of his generation to have come over to a western
capital to help 40th anniversary celebrationosn of www.considerbangladesh.com ; sofia sometimes edits world citozen guidesd connecting poeple doing pionneering interviews etc with folk
like jonasthan lesley taddy ... or hsoting birthday wish collaboration circles http://www.smbaworld.com/id43.html with fans of ingrid and yunus and fazle ab ed |