Backed into a corner financially, the private equity–owned physician staffing company could put doctors and patients at risk.
Rosemary Batt
Rosemary Batt is the Alice Hanson Cook Professor of Women and Work at the ILR School, Cornell University.
Posted inEconomic Policy
How Academic Medical Centers Made Out on Coronavirus Bailouts
It’s time to re-examine the tax-exempt status of these profit-making ‘nonprofits.’
Posted inCoronavirus
How Private Equity Firms Will Profit From COVID-19
Unless Congress and regulators act, private equity will shed its nonperforming assets and feast on new ones. J. Crew is the latest example.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Hospital Bailouts Begin—for Those Owned by Private Equity Firms
Hospitals weighed down by debt to their private equity owners set to receive taxpayers’ dollars
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Private Equity Tries to Protect Another Profit Center
The fight in Congress heats up over surprise medical billing, another abuse of the public driven by the private equity industry.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Private Equity Pillage: Grocery Stores and Workers At Risk
The private equity business model is to strip assets from companies that they acquire. The latest victims: retail grocery chains
