A tale of two private equity–spawned medical mega-practices
Maureen Tkacik
Maureen Tkacik is investigations editor at the Prospect and a senior fellow at the American Economic Liberties Project.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Catch Us if You Can
The mysterious firing of Amazon’s most ruthless union-buster from his new job underscores the monopoly’s insidious stranglehold over shopping.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Medicare Price Negotiation: Ten Drugs That Made the List, and Ten That Should Have
Advocates were thrilled that Medicare will negotiate the price of several insulins. But other high-profit drugs are protected by the new program’s rules.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Who’ll Stop the Raid?
A little-noticed Justice Department case alleges that Alabama’s Medical Properties Trust engaged in ‘fraudulent conveyance.’
Posted inLaw and Justice
An Unlikely Twist in Corporate Accountability
The Sacklers might actually get their legal immunity stripped, by the Supreme Court of all people.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Great American Hospital Shell Game
Stock in Medical Properties Trust tanked 14 percent this week after a couple of eyebrow-raising disclosures.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Yellow Scapegoats Teamsters for Apollo-Led Bankruptcy
The trucking company alleges the Teamsters used the company as a sacrificial lamb.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Gatekeeper of the Gougers
In a newly unsealed deposition, a former Express Scripts executive (unintentionally) reveals how hard his colleagues were undermining his ‘mission’ to cut drug prices.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Oliver Twist
How orphan drugs became big business for Big Pharma
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
A Sick System
The business of health care in America is deeply out of whack.