A Remedy for Corruption


Do I really have a remedy for corruption? I wish I did. But,
I have lately found an effective balm for the sickening discouragement that it
is easy to feel when confronted day after day with another instance of the medical
industry’s price-gouging corruption, purposeful distortions, and callous
disregard of patient  welfare. That
remedy is a new podcast from Australia: Ray Moynihan’s The

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