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Health co-ops have checkered history
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The Obama administration has signaled that it might accept health care cooperatives instead of a government-run health insurance program to compete with private insurers.
Interest groups disagree on whether such co-ops would have enough negotiating clout to help consumers without threatening private insurance companies. Here, in question and answer form, is a look at the issue based on interviews with several authorities, including the chief proponent of health co-ops, Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D.
Q: How would a health care co-op work?
A: As a nonprofit, member-owned group, ...
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EXHIBIT CAPTURES WORLD OF ENRICO CARUSO
News Wire article from: United Press International
; ...Franchetti, the Metropolitan's general manager, Giulio Gatti-Casazza, and conductors Arturo Toscanini and Giorgio Polacco...Mishkin backstage group photo of Puccini, Toscanini, Gatti-Casazza, and American playwright David Belasco. Caruso...
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IN OUR PAGES: 100, 75 AND 50 YEARS AGO 1933: Met Seeks New Talent
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; ...Herald Tribune Edition: 1 Section: NEWS MILAN: -- Giulio Gatti-Casazza has arrived in Milan, where he expects to remain...members of the Metropolitan Opera Company troupe. Mr. Gatti-Casazza professed skepticism about finding singers of unusual...
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Obituaries: ROSE BAMPTON
Magazine article from: Opera News
; ...recording of Gumlieder brought her to the attention of Giulio Gatti-Casazza, then general manager of the Metropolitan Opera. Bampton hesitated when Gatti-Casazza offered her a Met contract - she had doubts as to...
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Saturday Afternoons at the Old Met: The Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts, 1931-1950.
Magazine article from: Notes
; ...Kirsten Flagstad. In 1931, as Giulio Gatti-Casazza was nearing the end of his formidable...if sporadically. By the time Gatti's successor Edward Johnson arrived...and the circumstances that led to Gatti's reluctant acceptance of commercial...
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Sister act
Magazine article from: Opera News
; ...jumped from vaudeville to the Met in Giulio Gatti-Casazza's historic premiere of La Forza...heard of Ponselle, chiefly because Gatti had decided not to publicize her...decided to go to see Forza, which Gatti had prepared as a vehicle for Caruso...
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Who Killed Classical Music? Maestros, Managers and Corporate Politics
Magazine article from: Opera News
; ...profile than any other artist. Conried's successor Giulio Gatti-Casazza is called "unflappably elegant," a puzzling description...formidable manager rarely encountered elsewhere, and while Gatti's cost-cutting measures during the Depression are...
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Mansion strikes the right note Bankes Mansion, familiar from TV and film, was home to famous singer
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...occasionally performed at the Met and became a great star. Giulio Gatti-Casazza was the general manager of the Met. In his memoirs...star while she sang her death scene in "La Boheme." Gatti didn't like those pranks. Once, he fined Caruso...
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Souvenirs from American Operas: Arias, Duets
Magazine article from: Opera News
; ...Record Collectors Club shows - it was different once. In the heady days before the Depression, general manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza pursued novelties. None of them showed long-term staying power, though Deems Taylor's The Kings Henchman...
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Otto Kahn: Art, Money & Modern Time
Magazine article from: Opera News
; ...internecine bickering paradoxically threatens to obscure the fact that Kahn and his hand-picked general manager, Giulio Gatti-Casazza, took advantage of the board's prevailing apathy to chart an operatic course that looked distinctly forward...
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CD REVIEWS CDs of American operas are not the stuff Puccinis are made of
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; ...were interested as much in the new as the old, and the commissioning of operas was a fairly standard practice. Giulio Gatti-Casazza, the Met's general manager during the early decades of this century, came from such a tradition, and he did...
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