A Higher Impunity - How Can we Reduce Health Care Leadership ' s Impunity When the President Claims His Own Impunity?

Impunity: an IntroductionWe believe that unaccountable leadership is a major cause of health care dysfunction. Impunity is an extreme form of unaccountable leadership.We have noted that despite numerous legal settlements made by health care organizations of alllegations likefraud,bribery, andkickbacks, almost never do top leaders who presided over these actions face any negative consequences.  Lack of deterrence caused by such impunity appears to be a major cause of  the epidemic of continuing unethical behavior,crime andcorruption on the part of large health care organizations. How executives got to the point of having such impunity has never been clear.Timidity and lenience by regulatory agencies and law enforcement seem to be factors. For example, in 2014, wenoted  that Attorney  General Eric Holder had previously been reluctant to go after big organizations because of the economic consequences of their failure:The attorney general angered many last year when he reiterated those concerns at a congressional hearing, admitting 'that the size of some of these institutions becomes so large that it does become difficult for us to prosecute' because of the potential nasty economic effects of a major company failure.In general we have seen much tougher enforcement directed against relatively small health care players than against bigger ones.  For example,we noted in 2014 that settlements by  Merck, Eli Lilly, Takeda, and Teva, all large pharmac...
Source: Health Care Renewal - Category: Health Management Tags: crime deception Donald Trump fraud impunity kickbacks legal settlements perjury Source Type: blogs