Why the structure matters

A great deal of the harm in this story came from incentives. Distributors and chains had a volume incentive. Pill mills had a cash incentive. Enforcement had a caseload incentive. Insurers had a cost incentive. Almost nobody in the chain had an incentive that pointed at the outcome for the person in pain.

Running this program inside a 501(c)(3) does not make anyone virtuous, but it does remove one class of incentive from the design, and it makes the organization’s finances a matter of public record. An agency evaluating IntellaRx can read them.

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• Sevadar Foundation Inc. — the parent organization.
• Principles — the commitments this program is written against.
• Frequently asked questions.
• Leadership.