Health Care Corruption No Longer a Taboo Topic?

We have been going on 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 inability to even discuss what amounts to taboo topics (which we dubbed the "anechoic effect. " ) But as  corruption, and crime are increasingly linked to the most powerful leaders in the US, it becomes harder to deny that we have a huge problem with corruption in general, and thus maybe it becomes harder to deny we have a huge problem with health care corruption (see also our posts onconflicts of interest,crime, and specificallybribery,extortion,fraud, andkickbacks in health care.)US Governmental Corruption in the HeadlinesLast month we notedthat mainstream media are now beginning to discuss how the US has a history of not adequately investigating corruption, and has developed a culture of impunity that is fostering corruption.Yesterday, theWashington Post reportedthat 200 US Representatives (all Democrats) filed a lawsuit charging the President of the US with accepting emoluments (payments or gifts meant to influence him, that is, the moral equivalent of bribes) from foreign governments, and charged that this violated the US Constitution.  While there is controversy about whether these lawmakers have the " standing " to pursue this lawsuit, at least some legal scholars insisted that it is corruption that is at issue:Legal scholars consulted by the congressional plaintiffs ...
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