Backed into a corner financially, the private equity–owned physician staffing company could put doctors and patients at risk.
Eileen Appelbaum
Eileen Appelbaum is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and visiting professor at the School of Management, University of Leicester (U.K.).
Posted inEconomic Policy
Is a Private Equity Club Deal Coming to a Pension Fund Near You?
Partnerships between private equity firms to buy large enterprises have historically turned out very badly.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
A Surprise Ending for Surprise Billing?
Compromise legislation to end the practice has private equity firms nervous.
Posted inEconomic Policy
How Academic Medical Centers Made Out on Coronavirus Bailouts
It’s time to re-examine the tax-exempt status of these profit-making ‘nonprofits.’
Posted inDay One Agenda
A Day One Agenda for Private Equity
A new administration would have numerous opportunities to weaken the power of these financial titans.
Posted inCoronavirus
How Private Equity Firms Will Profit From COVID-19
Unless Congress and regulators act, private equity will shed its nonperforming assets and feast on new ones. J. Crew is the latest example.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Hospital Bailouts Begin—for Those Owned by Private Equity Firms
Hospitals weighed down by debt to their private equity owners set to receive taxpayers’ dollars
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
How Private Equity Makes You Sicker
Investment firms have created consolidated hospital empires across America, leading to closures, higher prices, and suffering.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Private Equity Tries to Protect Another Profit Center
The fight in Congress heats up over surprise medical billing, another abuse of the public driven by the private equity industry.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Private Equity Pillage: Grocery Stores and Workers At Risk
The private equity business model is to strip assets from companies that they acquire. The latest victims: retail grocery chains