The Brunch Table

10/23/2003

Subcontractors All The Way Down

Filed under: — Joe @ 11:12 am

Interesting story about a triumph of free-market capitalism in health care: the transcription of some patient records at UCSF Medical Center was being sub-sub-sub-contracted out to a woman in Pakistan. When someone in the middle of the chain (allegedly) became a deadbeat employer, the woman actually doing the work threatened to post patient records to the internet unless she was paid.

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