Move Along, People, Move Along: There’s No Health Care Corruption to See Here
Naked Capitalism has the article Move Along, People, Move Along: There’s No Health Care Corruption to See Here and it is not about Obamacare.
Summary
As we have said before, when health care corruption is actually discussed in polite circles, including the scholarly literature about medicine and health care, the discussion usually refers to corruption elsewhere. In particular, in developed countries, discussion of health care corruption usually focuses on less developed countries.
Now we see that when the issue clearly is the possibility of health care corruption, even the news media will avoid using such a term. Articles may describe what amount to health care corruption. They may refer to it as corruption. But they will not pair that term with health care (or medicine, or anything similar). The subject of health care corruption remains taboo. As long as we do not discuss it, some can preserve the illusion that it does not exist. Thus the anechoic effect continues.
So to repeat an ending to one of my previous posts on health care corruption…. if we really want to reform health care, in the little time we may have before our health care bubble bursts, we will need to take strong action against health care corruption. Such action will really disturb the insiders within large health care organizations who have gotten rich from their organizations’ misbehavior, and thus taking such action will require some courage.
The article is also a good reminder of why the Rick Perry issue of abuse of power is not just some political game of a disgruntled district attorney. There is serious health care corruption at issue here.
The remarks about Perry’s support for HPV vaccination of every Texas girl is quite revealing. It wasn’t an out-of-character move by Perry, after all.