More oversight to foil bribes is wishful thinking

Implications: Illegal and unethical bribes to orthopedists have gone on since time immemorial and have been visible throughout the medical and device profession and business.  Yet little (despite Peter Robert Stark's attempt) to separate this added incentive from the most highly paid specialists in medicine, it has continue unabated.  Yes, it has morphed as the law has, but it continues as long as the orthopedist influences revenue generation within the walls of the hospitla. Yes, other specialties also have the same conflict of interest, but the lack of man power and political willingness to prosecute this few in the medical profession has "sanctioned" its spread.

Analysis: The willingness to pursue flagrant conflicts of interest for money do occur rarely but is and will remain the tip of this abuse in our health care system.  Inadequate resources and lack of political will to prosecute physicians has led to more creative relationships and additional ones within the walls of hosptials to enhance income for both the physician and the hospital to the unnecessary cost of health care for Americans.

Unless it becomes a priority of the American people, little impact in this area is likely despite its growing presence.