The trucking company alleges the Teamsters used the company as a sacrificial lamb.
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
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.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
My Life in Corporate Medicine
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.
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.
