Move Along, No Health Care Corruption to See Here

Health care corruption, remains a largely taboo topic, especially when it occurs in developed countries like the US.  Searching PubMed or major medical and health care journals at best will reveal a few articles on health care corruption, nearly all about corruption somewhere else than the authors' countries, usually in someplace much poorer.  While the media may publish stories about issues related to health care corruption, they are almost never so labelled.Yet Transparency International's report on global health care corruption suggested it occurs in all countries.  A recent TI survey showed that 43% of US citizens believe the country has a health care corruption problem (look here).   In the last few weeks, there have been two major US news stories that seem to clearly involve  allegations of health care corruption, but not in so many words.   Both were big because the indicted were sitting governors of big US states.Governor Rick Perry (Republican - Texas) Indicted for Abuse of PowerThe biggest story seems to be the indictment of Rick Perry, the Republican Governor of Texas.   Here is a summary from the Washington Post,A grand jury indicted Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) on two felony counts  Friday, alleging that he abused his office and used a veto threat to coerce an elected district attorney to resign.The grand jury began considering charges against Perry earlier this year following an ethics complaint alleging that he abu...
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