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We have noted  (most recently here),  that health care corruption, particularly its global nature and its presence in developed countries like the US, is a taboo topic and thus remains anechoic.  Yet corruption in general, and health care corruption in particular, are huge global problems. Transparency International just released the full results of the 2017 version of its Global Corruption

The pace of people spinning through the US federal revolving door seems unprecedented.  Most were people going from the health care corporations to government positions regulating or making policy influencing those same corporations.  Since our last roundup, of 11 days ago, we have found two more significant travelers from industry to government, and one from the previous administration

This latest revolving door case echoes scandals of long ago. Background: CEO Dr William McGuire and the UnitedHealth Affair A long time ago,in a galaxy far, far away, actually, from 2006 through 2008, we posted frequently about shenanigans at huge for-profit health insurance/ managed care company UnitedHealth.  We often discussed the patient-unfriendliness of its policies and processes (look

The controversy over the Affordable Care Act, aka "Obamacare," still goes on in the US.  The ACA, which is still the law of the land after congressional Republicans made attempts to repeal and replace it, was meant to increase access to health care by increasing access to health care insurance without disturbing the current US reliance on private, mostly for-profit health insurance companies It

Last week, we discussed what appeared to be the most egregious case of the health care revolving door seen so far.  A health care corporate lobbyist without any direct medical, health care, public health or biomedical science experience was named Acting US Secretary of Health and Human Services after being confirmed as Deputy Secretary. Former Top Executive of Pharmaceutical Company Eli Lilly

Once again, you just cannot make this stuff up. Last week we posted our latest revolving door roundup, one of many we have done during the Trump administration.  At the time we noted that a lobbyist, Mr Eric D Hargan, at Greenberg Taurig Alston & Bird, had been nominated to be Deputy Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Wikepedia provides a little more information

Sorry about the bad pun.  We have accumulated a remarkable number of stories of people transiting the revolving door from working for health care corporations in various but important capacities to positions in health care policy or regulation for the Trump administration.  These stories may not always appear in the most prominent places, but their accumulation suggests they should be of