A new guard is pushing the (once passionately pro-corporate) doctors’ trade group to clamp down on health care profiteering.
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Posted inHealth and Social Policy
‘$23 Billion Up for Grabs’
Joe Biden’s embrace of VA outsourcing just got worse.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Moral Authority of Marc Rowan
The private equity billionaire is leading a boycott of an Ivy League oligarch factory over a Palestinian literary festival it held last month.
Posted inWorking in America
Kaiser Workers Say They Want the Old Kaiser Back
Once known for strong employee-management relations, its workers now say staffing and pay need to rise to attract and retain the staff Kaiser needs.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Heads They ‘Cha-Ching!’; Tails They Take Away Your Malpractice Insurance
A tale of two private equity–spawned medical mega-practices
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 inMoney, Politics, and Power
Progressive and Moderate Wings Collide in Rhode Island House Race
Aaron Regunberg has left-wing endorsements; Lt. Gov. Sabina Matos, more centrist ones. But Matos is fending off a series of scandals.
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 inHealth and Social Policy
When M.D.s Go Union
The wave of professionals who are joining unions has now reached the ranks of physicians.
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.
