Sympathy for the Devil - Mr Trump's Adviser on FDA Leadership Prefers Corruption to Boredom
Please allow me to introduce myself I ' m a man of wealth and taste I ' ve been around for a long, long year Stole many a man ' s soul and faith- Keith Richards, Mick JaggerMr Peter Theil, a Silicon Valley billionaire, apparently a man of wealth and taste, has become a major adviser to the transition team for US President-Elect Donald Trump about candidates for important government positions, including the leadership of the US Food and Drug Administration. As we notedhere, Mr Theil apparently supported the candidacy of one Jim O ' Neill, one of Mr Theil ' s business associates, for this position, despite Mr O ' Neill...
Source: Health Care Renewal - January 18, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: conflicts of interest Donald Trump FDA health care corruption Source Type: blogs
Bozos on the Trump Health Care Bus: An Evidence-Denying Advocate, Former CEO of a Company Which Committed a $1.7 Billion Fraud, and An Internet Troll
Normally, the sorts of people who are responsible for health policy for the US government are not the most flamboyant in the world. Government advisers and officials show up on theHealth Care Renewal, an equal-opportunity offender, usually because ofconflicts of interest issues, particularly therevolving door. But left unsaid is that even those we criticize are usually well-informed, capable and sane.We live, however, in interesting times. Over the past few days, a number of stories about advisers for the Trump transition have appeared that go beyond the usual. I will present them in approxima...
Source: Health Care Renewal - January 11, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: crime deception disinformation Donald Trump FDA fraud generic managers HCA ill-informed management impunity kickbacks Source Type: blogs
Heath IT Mismanagement: MD Anderson to cut about 1,000 jobs due to " financial downfall officials largely attributed to its EPIC EHR implementation project "
At numerous posts on this blog I link to stories of health IT expense putting hospital financial stability at risk, e.g.:"What is more important in healthcare, computers, or nurses and other human beings? Southcoast Health cutting dozens of jobs on heels of expensive IT upgrade" athttp://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2016/04/what-is-more-important-in-healthcare.html"Lahey Health: hospital jobs lost, but computer vendors prosper" athttp://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2015/05/lahey-health-hospital-jobs-lost-but.html,"Monetary losses and layoffs from EHR expenses and EHR mismanagement"(http://hcrenewal.blogspot.com/2013/06/monetary-losses...
Source: Health Care Renewal - January 9, 2017 Category: Health Management Tags: Ayla Ellison Becker ' s Hospital Review EHR layoffs EPIC healthcare IT cost MD Anderson Mismanagement Source Type: blogs
If You See Something, Say (and Do) Something - Don't Just Grumble to Your Friends About Health Care Dysfunction
During the US presidential campaign, and after its results, I have heard from a lot of people who were unhappy. They were unhappy with the choice of candidates, their policies, or or their qualifications or character. They were unhappy about media coverage, about the political parties ' leadership, etc, etc. But most of them only expressed their unhappiness to a small group of friends.Similarly, while blogging forHealth Care Renewal over the years, I have heard lots of people who are unhappy about the issues we cover, mainly as they affect health care, but also as they affect the larger political economy, for example...
Source: Health Care Renewal - January 3, 2017 Category: Health Management Source Type: blogs
Follow the Money: Nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services Traded Health Care Stocks and Owned Tobacco Stocks While in Congress
ConclusionsMr Trump ' s ongoing behavior does have some silver linings. It is making the public more aware of the dangers of conflicts of interest andcorruption, not just in health policy or health care. And it is also making the public aware how we have to follow the money, all the money that flows around our new plutocrat-in-chief to be, and his rich and well connected cronies.If we cannot restrain the increasing pile of conflicted and possibly corrupt political appointments, we will be in for much worse than the health care dysfunction Health Care Renewal has been lamenting for more than 10 years. (Source: Health Care Renewal)
Source: Health Care Renewal - December 29, 2016 Category: Health Management Tags: conflicts of interest DHHS Donald Trump health care corruption tobacco US Congress Source Type: blogs
