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Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Brown University, co-founder Health Care Renewal, and President of FIRM - the Foundation for Integrity and Responsibility in Medicine, a not-for-profit organization (NGO) designed to raise awareness of external threats to the core values in health care as the first step toward addressing them.
SHARE Monday, April 8, 2019 Despite Protestations of Bipartisanship, Many Healthcare Leaders Donate to Republicans
et, recently, especially in the US, we have seen evidence that some health care organizations have become partisan, albeit stealthily, throwing their support behind political candidates, parties and organizations that may support their policy and regulatory goals, even while they may also support positions that go against the health care and public health mission, or even may be frankly anti-democratic...
SHARE Monday, October 29, 2018 Issues at the 18th International Anti-Corruption Conference
Many issues brought up at the 18th International Anti-Corruption Conference (IACC) in Copenhagen, Denmark, were relevant to the problems of conflicts of interest, crime and corruption in health care which we often discuss on Health Care Renewal, and hence bear repeating here.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, July 24, 2017 Health Care Corruption No Longer a Taboo Topic?
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
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, May 8, 2017 Health Insurance For Me But Not for Thee?
something surprising on the sixth page of the amendment: an exemption for the health insurance of legislators and their staff. This means that members of Congress and their aides would be guaranteed access to Obamacare provisions that constituents could lose.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, April 24, 2017 Pontifications About Health Care Reform Written by Insiders Who Benefit from the Status Quo - Worse Than We Think
Perceptions that the US health care system is dysfunctional and needs major reform go way back. A timeline from the Tampa Bay Times noted President Theodore Roosevelt's proposal for a national health service in 1912. Nonetheless, as we have discussed endlessly, most attempts at reform failed, and health care dysfunction seems to be getting worse.
(9 comments) SHARE Saturday, September 26, 2015 Turn That Door Around - A Physician Substantially Tied to the Pharmaceutical Industry Nominated to Run the FDA
It seems to be the season of the revolving door in health care. The latest version got some media attention, because it involves one of the most important health care leadership positions in the US government, the Director of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). However, the case actually seems much more serious than what the media has recently reported.
(43 comments) SHARE Wednesday, October 8, 2014 Can Our Dysfunctional Health Care System Contain Ebola?
While many would have us believe the US has the Best health care system in the world, statistics say US processes and outcomes are at best mediocre & there is reason to worry that it will be harder than many expect for the US to deal with Ebola. There is already some evidence that some of the sorts of problems we have been discussing for years made it harder for the US to cope with even the so far limited incursion of Ebola.