What happens when big money meets big money? Well, eventually the big money with illimitable taxing and regulatory power would win.

A group of North Carolina doctors filed a class-action lawsuit Thursday seeking millions of dollars in damages from the state and its contractors over flawed computer programs that severely delayed Medicaid reimbursements.

In the corporate sector I left behind, one need only document the flaws and get management to sign off on a corrective action plan for continual improvement. Such action should be more than enough to bring back to life anybody who died while gnawing at knots in the red-tape.