Business ethics is an oxymoron.  California skeptics are committed to reporting on the incredible amount of harm caused by the intrusion of market-place forces upon our medical system. It isn’t how much better off we are from the snake-oil days, but how much better off we would be if we took Big PHARMA out of the mix.  Nearly every new drug and thus treatment has been made worse by Big PhARMA’s drive to maximize profits.  The same can be said of our managed health care system (managed for profits).   Our medical treatment system rates as the worse among developed countries—ranked 40^th by the W.H.O..          

Even more telling is the British Medical journal’s article which goes into what has gone wrong with the U.S. health-care system