Pluralistic: The long lineage of private equity’s looting by Cory Doctorow June 2, 2023 Fans of the Sopranos will remember the “bust out” as a mob tactic in which a business is taken over, loaded up with debt, and driven into the ground, wrecking the lives of the business’s workers, customers and suppliers. When […]
When private equity destroys your hospital by Cory Doctorow February 28, 2024 As someone who writes a lot of fiction about corporate crime, I naturally end up spending a lot of time being angry about corporate crime. It’s pretty goddamned enraging. But the fiction writer in me is especially upset at how cartoonishly evil
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Private Equity in Health Care: Prevalence, Impact and Policy Options for California and the U.S. By Christopher Cai, Resident Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Zirui Song, Associate Professor of Health Care Policy and Medicine, Harvard Medical School May 7, 2024 At its most recent peak in 2021, private equity (PE) investment into the broad
After private equity takes over hospitals, they are less able to care for patients, top medical researchers say By Gretchen Morgenson July 31, 2024, 11:00 AM PDT After private-equity firms acquire hospitals, the facilities’ assets and resources diminish significantly, leaving the facilities less equipped to care for patients, according to a new study by
