{"id":8319,"date":"2011-04-30T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=8319"},"modified":"2011-04-29T22:52:08","modified_gmt":"2011-04-30T02:52:08","slug":"or-ghostwritten-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2011\/04\/30\/or-ghostwritten-for\/","title":{"rendered":"or ghostwritten for&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div align=\"justify\">I had read a number of reports about the announcement that the Chairman of Forest Pharma Howard Solomon would be barred from Medicare\/Medicaid payments because of corporate misbehavior, but I thought this was the clearest logic about this move by HHS:<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/hcrenewal.blogspot.com\/2011\/04\/will-pharmaceutical-ceo-finally-be-held.html\" target=\"_blank\">Will a Pharmaceutical CEO Finally Be Held Accountable for Misbehavior on His Watch? <\/a><\/strong><br \/>  <strong>Healthcare Renewal<\/strong><br \/>Dr. Roy Poses<br \/>04\/15\/2011<\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\">&#8230;So the facts in the Forest Laboratories case make protests that holding  corporate leaders accountable for misbehavior on their watches will  stifle innovation seem disingenuous. Furthermore, it makes no sense to  pay top corporate leaders outrageous amounts for everything good that  happens on their watch without similarly holding them accountable for  everything bad that happens then.<\/p>\n<div align=\"justify\"> If the US government is really going to hold one corporate leader  responsible for misbehavior by his subordinates on his watch, that would  be a step forward.&nbsp; As we have said again and again, we will not deter  unethical behavior by health care organizations until the people who  authorize, direct or implement bad behavior fear some meaningfully  negative consequences. Real health care reform needs to make health care  leaders accountable, and especially accountable for the bad behavior  that helped make them rich. <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">Of course that&#8217;s right. Here&#8217;s the Forest way from their 2004 Marketing Plan [see <a href=\"http:\/\/pogoblog.typepad.com\/pogo\/2011\/04\/youre-fired-forest-labs-ceo-may-be-banned-from-federal-healthcare.html#more\" target=\"_blank\"><u><strong><font color=\"#660033\">POGO<\/font><\/strong><\/u><\/a>]:<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"520\" vspace=\"5\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/pogoblog.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c68bf53ef01538df45b62970b-800wi\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had read a number of reports about the announcement that the Chairman of Forest Pharma Howard Solomon would be barred from Medicare\/Medicaid payments because of corporate misbehavior, but I thought this was the clearest logic about this move by HHS: Will a Pharmaceutical CEO Finally Be Held Accountable for Misbehavior on His Watch? Healthcare [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8319"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8321,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8319\/revisions\/8321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}