Growing Health Care and Grand Governmental Corruption - But Still Anechoic After All These Years

Here we go again.  We have long been concerned about health care corruption as a major cause of health care dysfunction. Our last post on the topic wasin January, 2018.Summary: the Corruption of Health Care Leadership as a Major Cause of Health Care DysfunctionAs we wrote in August, 2017, 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 world also has its costs.The report got little attention. Health care corruption has been nearly a taboo topic in the US,anechoic, presumably because its discussion would offend the people it makes rich and powerful. As suggested by the recentTransparency International report on corruption in the pharmaceutical industry,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 expl...
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