Dr Hamish Meldrum, chairman of the British Medical Association, said the policy appeared to "further establish the idea of healthcare as a commodity", which would not be in patients' "best interests".

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The idea is to build up a multi-commodity company by 2000, says president director Erry Riyana Hardjapamekas.

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Well, this goes back to the idea that consumers have a very poor understanding of what a commodity is truly worth.

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D. in meteorology at MIT when he and a professor came up with the idea of selling long-range weather forecasts to commodity traders.

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