The business of health care in America is deeply out of whack.
Private Equity
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
The Real Problem With Asset Managers
Rich people collect the vast majority of capital income. There’s a better way.
Posted inTAP
As Goes Maine?
Today on TAP: A hopeful story about the survival of independent local newspapers
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Federal Agencies Investigating Medical Payment Products
The initiative is the Biden administration’s latest move in the fight against junk fees.
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 inMoney, Politics, and Power
How a Firm Profiting From Deposit Insurance Caps Is Lobbying to Keep Them
IntraFi, a private equity–owned company that offers the wealthy a work-around to the $250,000 limit on FDIC insurance, sees an existential threat in universal deposit guarantees.