We all know that the Indian healthcare system is riddled with corruption. This exists at many levels. Doctors demand cash payments from patients under the table ( sometimes even while the patient is in the Operation Theater, when the family is desperate and vulnerable); corporate hospitals and diagnostic centers incentivise doctors to refer patients to them; doctors ask for kickbacks from specialists in order to send patients to them ; and pharma companies bribe doctors to prescribe their brands. Now that these notes have been scrapped, the healthcare system will get its act together.