Suppose the Pope Condemned Health Care Corruption - and Hardly Anyone Noticed?

DiscussionRecently, Ibecame just a bit more optimistic that health care corruption would start getting the attention it deserved.  That may have been premature.  The world seems to becoming ever more friendly tomarket fundamentalism orneoliberalism.  The notions that every human activity, including medicine and health care, should be conducted as a business, and that in business, revenue come first is likely to be helped by the election of an ostensibly billionaire businessman to the presidency of the US.  That said president-elect once called Pope Francis " disgraceful " after the Pople questioned how Trump ' s proposal to " build a wall " to keep out supposedly deplorable Mexican immigrants squared with Christian beliefs (lookhere).Yet as suggested by the recentTransparency International report on corruption in the pharmaceutical industry,  there is so much money to be made through pharmaceutical (and by implication, other health care corruption) that the corrupt have the money, power, and resources to protect their wealth accumulation by keeping it obscure.  In the TI Report itself,However, strong control over key processes combined with huge resources and big profits to be made make the pharmaceutical industry particularly vulnerable to corruption. Pharmaceutical companies have the opportunity touse their influence and resources to exploit weak governance structures and divert policy and institutions away from public health objectives and tow...
Source: Health Care Renewal - Category: Health Management Tags: bribery conflicts of interest health care corruption market fundamentalism neoliberalism Pope Francis Source Type: blogs