Diagnosis: Insufficient Outrage

RECENT revelations should lead those of us involved in America’s health care system to ask a hard question about our business: At what point does it become a crime?

I’m not talking about a violation of federal or state statutes, like Medicare or Medicaid fraud, although crime in that sense definitely exists. I’m talking instead about the violation of an ethical standard, of the very "calling" of medicine.

By H. GILBERT WELCH

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/05/opinion/diagnosis-insufficient-outrage.html?hp&_r=0