The System Is Sick, Ctd

by Patrick Appel

Jonathan Cohn begs Kathleen Sebelius to read Mariah Blake's article:

You might be wondering why, after all these years, hospitals don'tsimply turn their back on the GPOs and buy directly from companiesselling better, cheaper wares. It's not clear, but the likely answer isa combination of inertia (hospitals have always done it this way, sothey keep doing it) and corruption, of the moral if not legal kind(hospitals still have personal and perhaps financial ties to the GPOs).Of...