Will the Current Crises Finally Prompt America to Address How it is Haunted by Corruption and Impunity?

There is one tiny silver lining in the political storm clouds swirling over the US.  Some of the issues about which we have been ranting onHealth Care Renewal are no longer so easily dismissed.  We have long harangued about the ruinous effects ofhealth care corruption, the role ofimpunity in enabling worsening corruption, our lack of good ways to challenge these problems, and our ongoing inablity to even discuss what amounts to taboo topics (which we dubbed the "anechoic effect. " )  In response, we have been called alarmists, nay-sayers, and worse.  Now the parade of crises created by the Trump regime have made these problems salient to American society.Corruption is a Huge Problem and We are Ill-Equipped to Deal With ItWe have frequently discussed outrightcorruption in health care as one of the most important causes of health care dysfunction.  Transparency International (TI) defines corruption asAbuse of entrusted power for private gainIn 2006,TI published a report on health care corruption, which asserted that corruption is widespread throughout the world, serious, and causes severe harm to patients and society.the scale of corruption is vast in both rich and poor countries.Also,Corruption might mean the difference between life and death for those in need of urgent care. It is invariably the poor in society who are affected most by corruption because they often cannot afford bribes or private health care. But corruption in the richest parts of the...
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