I agree we cannot insulate ourselves from these issues, but I do not
agree that this is the place for them
Jim
Jim McManus
Assistant Director Health Improvement
Barking and Dagenham PCT
Public Health Lead
North East London Cardiac Network
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Subject: RE: FW: [POHG] late additions to increase Blair's shameful NHS
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Jim - I take your point, but I'm happy for this topic to be included on
this list. I might have missed it otherwise. I don't think a discussion
of evidence and healthcare can really insulate itself from these
political issues,
Michael
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Subject: Re: FW: [POHG] late additions to increase Blair's
shameful NHS legacy
Ok, useful and interesting, but what exactly does this, really, have to
do with evidence based health questions?
Polity of health, yes
Politics of health, yes
Equity even, yes
But seriously, there are plenty of places for this kind of obesrvation.
Or do we want to provoke another exodus of listserv members?
Jim McManus
Assistant Director Health Improvement
Barking and Dagenham PCT
Public Health Lead
North East London Cardiac Network
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Subject: Re: FW: [POHG] late additions to increase Blair's shameful NHS
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For more about the UnitedHealthcare stock option back-dating scandal see
this post on Health Care Renewal:
http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2006/10/another-really-big-one-bites-dust-ceo.html
which contains links to earlier posts.
I'm afraid the US may once again be exporting its problems to the UK.
Sorry...
At 09:28 AM 5/1/2007, Macfarlane, Alison wrote:
> * US health executive offered top NHS role*
>
>By Nicholas Timmins, Brooke Masters and Rebecca Knight
>
>Published: April 30 2007 03:00 | Last updated: April 30 2007 03:00
>
>An American executive with a lifetime's experience of paying for care
in
>the US health system has been offered the job of commercial director at
>the Department of Health, overseeing the purchase of care for NHS
>patients.
[snip]
>But the appointment ofR. Channing Wheeler, who is in the final stage of
>negotiations ahead of an expected announcement this week, is likely to
>be controversial as he has been caught up in the scandal of backdated
>stock options in the US.
>
[snip]
>Mr Wheeler, 55, was an executive vice-president of UnitedHealth Group,
>which is still being investigated by the US Securities and Exchange
>Commission over the alleged granting of backdated share options.
>
>The scandal has brought down William McGuire, the former longstanding
>chairman and chief executive of UnitedHealth, one of the largest US
>managed-care providers.
>
>Mr McGuire resigned after it was discovered that he and other
executives
>had repeatedly received stock options, meant to incentivise future
>performance, that were granted at or near the lowest point of the share
>price in each year they received them.
>
>Mr Wheeler, who until 2004 was chief executive of Uniprise, the
>UnitedHealth subsidiary that deals with some of the biggest US
>companies, is alleged to have received grants of more than 409,000
>options on similar dates to Mr McGuire between 1998 and 2002, according
>to court papers filed in the US.
Roy M. Poses MD
Clinical Associate Professor
Brown University School of Medicine
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