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.
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
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.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Another Private Equity–Style Hospital Raid Kills a Busy Urban Hospital
A nonprofit that endlessly boasts about its ‘inclusive culture’ decides it’s had enough of the ATL.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
A Community Hospital in Deep-Red Wyoming
After significant cutbacks and tragedies at their private equity–owned hospital, the community of Riverton, Wyoming, tried something different.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Nursing Home Slumlord Manifesto
In a surreal new lawsuit, New York nursing home owners say they make nearly a billion dollars a year understaffing homes and shortchanging patients.
Posted inBooks
Built to Lie
A new book about the Boeing 737 MAX disaster exposes the company’s allergy to the truth.
Posted inLaw and Justice
How Do You Solve a Problem Like the Sacklers?
Judges have grown accustomed to issuing get-out-of-litigation cards to corporate looters in bankruptcy court.