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Re:Open EMR by duffpkg on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @04:27PM (#25142661)
I have seen in healthcare more "bribery" than in any other industry I've ever worked. Whether quasi-legal in the shape of various kickbacks to outright illegal gifts of cash and goods. It is sadly endemic to the industry.

In part I think it happens more commonly because there is so much "other peoples money" in healthcare. Everyone is spending from someone elses checkbook and so transactions seem very distant.

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Re:Open EMR by oogetyboogety on Thursday November 19, 2020 @03:34AM (#25147420)
Accountable care models are the next step now that HMOs are widespread. restoring financial burden to the patient seems backwards when considering systems like universal healthcare, but ends up reducing inefficiency (identifying genuine surplus, not things that end up costing in the end like reducing preventative care)
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