Meet a millennial family physician who is also a one-woman antidote to private equity and the forces that have destroyed compassionate treatment for patients.
Maureen Tkacik
Maureen Tkacik is investigations editor at the Prospect and a senior fellow at the American Economic Liberties Project.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Shock Treatment in the Emergency Room
The Lehman-like collapse of a(nother) private equity–owned ER operator has physicians calling louder than ever for a strike.
Posted inBooks
Days of Plunder
Two new books call ‘private equity’ what it actually is, but neither offers much hope for emancipation from our eternal hostile takeover.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Quackonomics
Medical Properties Trust spent billions buying community hospitals in bewildering deals that made private equity rich and working-class towns reel.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
So Long but Not Farewell to Envision
The private equity–owned ER doctor practice, now headed to bankruptcy, was one of the defining companies of 21st-century American medicine.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Born to Die
Medicare spends tens of billions of dollars on hospice care each year. A new report ponders why regulators insist on going easy on literal death merchants.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Nursing Home Bosses Lavish Campaign Money on Florida
Lawmakers, including Gov. Ron DeSantis, have been enriched by a powerful crop of out-of-state owners seeking carve-outs for their industry.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Rich Bank Dumb Bank
Was Signature, the other bank in the Great Panic of 2023, a failure or a patsy?
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Ticketmaster’s Dark History
A 40-year saga of kickbacks, threats, political maneuvering, and the humiliation of Pearl Jam
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Griftrix
The implosion of a $16.5 billion Citrix Systems debt deal reveals how private equity firms always manage to wriggle out of trouble.