Good Health and The Haunting of CVS - by the Ghosts of Its, Caremark's, MedPartners' and HealthSouth's Past. Elvonda

In our brave new neoliberal world of commercialized health care, many US health care organizations are products of numerous mergers, acquis...

Good Health and A Tenet of Impunity - Tenet Settles Kickback Allegations for $514 Million, No Individual Suffers Any Negative Consequences. Elvonda

Tramp, tramp, tramp.  The march of legal settlements continues.  The latest entry is a corporation that has had a 20 plus year history of l...

Good Health and The Wages of Sin - a Small Illustration of How Executives Can Personally Profit from Bad Corporate Behavior in Health Care. Elvonda

The resolution of two related cases involving drug/ biotechnology/ device giant Johnson and Johnson opened a small window on the perverse i...

Good Health and Law and Order? - Bristol-Myers-Squibb Settles Case Alleging Fraud and Kickbacks, No Admissions of Guilt, No Individuals Charged. Elvonda

Introduction  Donald Trump, Republican candidate for the US presidency last week announced he is the "law and order" candidate, ac...

Good Health and UnitedHealth's Optum Division Settles Case Alleging it Enrolled Non-Terminally Ill Patients in Hospice, Thus Risking Their Deaths Due to Treatable Illnesses. Elvonda

Fraudulant hospice enrollment is a uniquely dangerous practice, yet the latest cases of it have, as usual, attracted little attention. Backg...

Good Health and What You See Is Not What You Get - Purdue Pharma Executives Pleaded Guilty, but the Oxycontin Billionaires Went Unnoticed. Elvonda

What you see if often not what you get.   Nine years ago, three top executives of Purdue Pharma pleaded guilty to criminal charges of "...

Good Health and Ho-hum, Another Month, Another Set of Multi-Million Dollar Settlements by Health Care Corporations Acting Badly. Elvonda

Amazingly, with a US presidential election looming, there is finally some public discussion here of the impunity of top corporate executiv...