A $1.7 Million/ Year CEO of a Safety Net Hospital - Alleged to Have Hired a Dangerous Surgeon, Paid Unethical Bonuses, and Associated with Organized Crime

We have long contended that a major reason for health care dysfunction is perverse incentives, including those that allow top health care leaders to become rich by putting money ahead of patient care. We have presented case after case supporting this point, most recently including a collection of generously compensated top executives of non-profit hospital systems whose pay seemed

Follow the Money: Non-Profit Hospital CEOs Quietly Collect Their Millions While US Health Care Reform Battle Rages

In Washington, DC the health care policy wars continue, with a few Republican senators working behind closed doors on a bill to "repeal and replace" Obamacare, aka the Affordable Care Act, and Democrats decrying their secrecy. Just as during the era in which Obamacare was enacted, there is constant discusison of how US health care costs continually rise, driving up insurance premiums, and how

Health Care Corruption No Longer a Taboo Topic?

We have been going on about the ruinous effects of health care corruption, the role of impunity
in enabling worsening corruption, our lack of good ways to challenge
these problems, and our ongoing inability to even discuss what amounts to
taboo topics (which we dubbed the "anechoic effect.") But as corruption, and crime are increasingly linked to the most powerful leaders in the US, it

Trumping Up a Health Care Charity - Trump Organization Received Increasing Revenue from a Children's Cancer Care Charity

While health and health care are clearly not central interests of the current US President, Donald J Trump, we have noted some disturbing stories about the effects of his leadership on health care. Most importantly, prior to the election, a story appeared alleging that Mr Trump licensed
his name, and actively supported the Trump Network, which sold dodgy
vitamin supplements to gullible

"The Most Complicated Piece of Health Care is the Revenue" (Say What?) - The Shameless Managerialism of a Hospital CEO

Introduction

Managerialism, in my humble opinion, is one of the major reasons why the US health care system is so dysfunctional. We have long discussed how people whom we first called "generic managers" have taken over health care. Increasingly, health care organizations, including hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, health insurance companies, government agencies, etc are now led by people