…two trips in 2019, involving a hotel stay in Bali, Indonesia, and at a private club in Sonoma County, Calif. 5 reasons Supreme Court ethics questions are more common now…

Robert Devereaux, MD wrote a piece on upcoding at MedPage. “The Trouble With Upcoding Extends Far Beyond Ethics.” This is a topic I have touched upon a couple of times…

…reason Donald Trump isn’t signing ethics pledges.” Indeed, after his first term, the watchdog organization Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington concluded that “there is absolutely no doubt that…

…untenable politically dominated process. Additionally, the House and Senate Ethics Committees operate completely differently from all of the other 200-plus Committees and Subcommittees in Congress. The Ethics Committees’ rules require “Professional, Nonpartisan…

…toward reform would be to redesign the committee structure around parity and professionalism. The model already exists and has been operational for years. The House and Senate Ethics Committees—unlike all…

…to do his bidding. (Pam Bondi has asserted that she and the Justice Department’s antitrust division will oversee the merger.) This past week, the Supreme Court heard arguments about whether…

…the McCain-Feingold election-law restrictions happened to be Citizens United. Citizens United actually challenged a regulation in that law that had nothing to do with campaign contributions. It was the Court…

…because he accurately summarized an article in The Washington Post. ” The Obama campaign misused a recent Washington Post article to label Romney as an “outsourcer in chief.”” Yes the…

…new use of a pharmaceutical. They do not have to be applied to the decision of whether to prescribe a pharmaceutical off label (not for the use for which it…

…Profession. He violates medical professional ethics (he can he’s not a doctor) and gives advice on health care (he has a first amendment right to do that as do I)….