More than a dozen hospitals employing tens of thousands have either shut this year or are on the brink, while two shadowy figures prop up their owners’ stock.
Maureen Tkacik
Maureen Tkacik is investigations editor at the Prospect and a senior fellow at the American Economic Liberties Project.
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Did Luigi Save the UnitedHealth Case?
While shutting down dozens of corporate crime probes, the Trump DOJ seems to have jump-started a forever investigation into the mega-insurer’s billing practices.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Your Kink Is Health Care? Good Luck, Babe.
Fans have been pushing pop stars to take courageous political stands, but Chappell Roan’s skirmish with an obnoxious exec shows how hard it is for them to stand up even for themselves.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The DOGE Czar’s Plan to Loot Medicare
Elon Musk’s coup plotters cut their teeth at an obscure Obamacare agency that burned $10 billion testing bogus cost savings initiatives.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Private Equity Hatchet Man Leading the Lost Boys of DOGE
If Tom Krause is looking for government waste, ‘he should look in the mirror,’ says an ex-employee.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Crisis Actors
The Alex Jones bankruptcy case revealed where the real hoaxes exist in this country: in our most elite courtrooms.
Posted inTransportation
The ‘DEI Theory’ of Boeing’s Undoing
It’s 95 percent fake news, but the rise and fall of American aviation is also a powerful parable about the limits of what Percy Green called ‘tokenism.’
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
A Private Equity Hospital Bankruptcy Gets a True-Crime Twist
Prospect Medical Holdings is the latest sordid tale of legalized hospital embezzlement killing patients and communities. But the judge assigned to its bankruptcy raises eyebrows in a good way.
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Plutocracy Kills
From the Boeing door plug blowout to the assassination of Brian Thompson to the never-ending oligarch-fueled genocide of Gaza, 2024 was not a year of moral ambiguity or nuance.
