Bibliographic record
Abstract
According to Prof Feachem, KP provides a higher quality service than the NHS at a much lower cost.Surprisingly, he has as one co-author, Prof Kerr White, formerly a lifelong advocate for a national health service covering the whole US population.KP is not representative of the whole US care system.It is nominally not for profit.Profits are listed in its balance sheets, but they are apparently mostly shared by its medical staff and administrators.It is generally recognised as the most enlightened large unit so far developed in the US.However, even as a comparison not between two national systems, but between the NHS as a national system and KP as a single large corporate unit, like was not compared with like, and many other aspects of this study make its conclusions extremely doubtful.Its methodology falls far short of the standards normally required for research papers in peer-reviewed journals. The political economy of health care -Second editionAccording to Wikipedia, Serco was founded in 1929 as the UK branch of the Radio Corporation of America.It now provides management services at NHS hospitals for Norfolk and Norwich, Leicester Royal Infirmary and Wishaw Hospital Trusts, manages and operates Bradford, Stoke-on-Trent and Walsall Local Education Authorities, operates the UK National Physical Laboratory, four prisons, two immigration removal centres, electronic tagging systems, the Docklands Light Railway, the Ballistic Missiles Early Warning system at RAF Fylingdales, RAF bases at Brize Norton, Halton, Northolt and Ascension Island, is one of three companies operating the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston, and shares with another company operation of Royal Navy bases at Portsmouth, Devonport and the Clyde, and many other formerly public service ventures in the UK, as well as many others in Canada, Australia and elsewhere in the EU and Middle East.All these operations, including those for the NHS, and all the contracts setting their terms and conditions, are covered by commercial secrecy and are virtually immune from public scrutiny.This seems to typify the relation between business and elected government now tacitly or overtly endorsed by all main UK political parties.The political economy of health care -Second edition
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".