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.
Steward Health
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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.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Ambulance Chasers of Totaled Hospitals
Insight Health is the pride of Flint, Michigan, and it’s coming for a failing hospital near you.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Are Democrats Even a Little Serious About Stopping Private Equity?
A notorious health care looter claims a Senate investigation into his private equity–enabled hospital collapse is a superficial show trial. Did Gavin Newsom just prove him right?
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The Prospect Weekly Roundup: Every News Story That’s Happened This Week
David Dayen and Maureen Tkacik try their best to get through all of them.
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‘Steward Health Are Health Care Terrorists’
A fiery Senate committee hearing promised accountability for hospital looter Ralph de la Torre, but new raids are already under way at the hospitals and the broader health care system.
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Hospital Looter Says ‘Nah’ to His Senate Subpoena
The Steward yacht collector tells Bernie Sanders that testifying next week could jeopardize ‘patient care,’ or something; meets bipartisan contempt.
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Can’t Pay Won’t Pay
Steward’s evasion of creditors in its spectacular bankruptcy even includes the wrongful death settlement for a young mom.
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From the Folks Who Brought You the Death Panel Algorithm
Three executives from an AI ploy to deny health care to seniors are buying a troubled mega-practice from the bankrupt Steward Health. What could go wrong?
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Let Them Eat Invoices
Steward grifter Ralph de la Torre, supposedly under criminal investigation on two continents, is now telecommuting from Versailles.