60% of big pharma regulators put 20 in working for their government pension, then shift over to big pharma for the big paychecks, helping their new employer circumvent the very regulations they were formerly employed to impose.
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Healthcare and big pharma - so important to our quality of life, and so subject to being corrupted due to the enormous profit potentials.
During the two decades I was involved in hospital accreditation (The Joint Commission), the infection rates, readmission rates and death rates were always higher at for-profits, as was the per centage of unnecessary surgeries, the Tenet for-profit hospital chain cross the country always among the worse:
"On the 30th of October the FBI raided Tenet's Redding Hospital in California, alleing two cardiac doctors had carried out large numbers of cardiac procedures that were neither indicated, nor necessary, some on patients with normal heart, performing hundreds of unnecessary heart operations. The raid was followed by the exposure of the outlier scam in which a loophole was used to charge far more for sicker patients. Because of this loophole Tenet had changed its policies. It was specifically targeting major surgery and sicker patients at the expense of conditions which paid less well."
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