#GoodhartsLaw holds that "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." Give an MBA within HCA a metric ("get patients out of bed quicker") and they will find a way to hit that metric ("send patients off to die somewhere else, even if their doctors think they could recover"):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
Incentives matter! Any corporate measure immediately becomes a target.
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Tell Warners to decrease costs, and they will turn around and declare the #WritersStrike to be a $100m "cost savings," despite the fact that this "savings" comes from ceasing production on the shows that will bring in all of *next year's* revenue:
Incentivize a company to eat its seed-corn and it will *chow down*.
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Only one of HCA's doctors was willing to go on record about its death panels: #GhasanTabel of #RiversideCommunityHospital (motto: "Above all else, we are committed to the care and improvement of human life"). Tabel sued Riverside after the hospital retaliated against him when he refused to follow the algorithm's orders to send his patients for palliative care.
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