[PEN-L:9536] Re: Re: Re: Re: Shades of Summers

["ann li" <annzl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gene, that may have been so prior to deregulation, but may not be so in the
so-called new market(s) for electrical power which will marginalize such
municipal arrangements.

Ann


----- Original Message -----
From: Eugene Coyle <eugenecoyle@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Thursday, July 22, 1999 12:40 PM
>Subject: [PEN-L:9524] Re: Re: Re: Shades of Summers


> There are good studies in electric power that show that ownership does
> matter.  The municipally-owned systems deliver at a lower cost than the
> investor-owned, after controlling for all the things the Investor-owned
> throw out to refute this.
>
> Gene Coyle
>
> Jim Devine wrote:
>
> > Max wrote:
> > >The problem remains, however, that under a non-profit
> > >system, public agencies, non-profit organizations, and
> > >health care providers of various sorts could still
> > >have incentives to over- or mis-prescribe, since
> > >their compensation or general well-being is likely
> > >to have something to do with their volume, and/or
> > >the extent to which they employ expensive equipment.
> > >
> > >Which again points up the superficiality or limited
> > >import of ownership per se in how economic stuff happens.
> >
> > what about the recent study (reported in the LAT) that indicates that
> > not-for-profit HMOs do a much better job than for-profit ones?
> >
> > (one down, one to go.)
> >
> > Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx &
> > http://clawww.lmu.edu/Faculty/JDevine/jdevine.html
>
>
>