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Podcast: Relentless Health Value
Episode: EP310: The 2020 Shkreli Awards for the Worst Examples of Profiteering and Dysfunction in Health Care, With Vikas Saini, MD, and Shannon Brownlee
Description: The Shkreli Awards have been published each year, for the past five years and counting, by the Lown Institute. The Shkreli Awards are a much-anticipated top 10 list of the worst examples of profiteering and dysfunction in health care. This year's list, celebrating the most excellently egregious profiteering in 2020, are unique in the sense that everybody on this list this year—every one of them—decided, deliberately, that a pandemic might be a super opportunistic global stroke of luck to exploit fear and anguish to line their own pockets. The list is named for Martin Shkreli, the price-hiking "phar...