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By Joel Jacobsen

The great medical journalist and commentator Atul Gawande published an eye-opening piece about health care costs in McAllen, Texas, last June.  He reported that health costs were twice as high in McAllen, in Hidalgo County down near the Gulf, than in demographically-similar El Paso.   Although Gawande didn't use the kind of recklessly intemperate language one might expect from, for instance, a blogger, I know for a fact that at least one reader came away from his article believing the explanation was that McAllen's medical establishment was comprehensively corrupt. It may not have been only the medical establishment.  From today's McAllen Monitor: Thousands of criminal cases in one of Hidalgo County's misdemeanor courts were called into question Wednesday with the arrest of two of its employees on bribery charges...continue to full post

Full post as published by Judging Crimes on January 21, 2010 (boomark / email).