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Though I’ve noticed the similarities between healthcare and retail finance, the inherent conflicts of interest in the business models of the two snapped into focus as I watched the latest episode of Satyamev Jayate. For those who did not tune in, the show focused on the conflict of interest in healthcare where doctors cut open healthy people to make money (prescribing a liver transplant where none was required and killing the patient was just one case), where commissions on laboratory testing drive private practice and kickbacks and gifts nudge the use of branded medicines on prescriptions instead of the generics that cost a fraction. While the manufacturer and the service provider collude, the patient suffers—both in terms of adverse health results (loss of life and body parts) and in terms of money.