Stock in Medical Properties Trust tanked 14 percent this week after a couple of eyebrow-raising disclosures.
Steward Health
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Quackonomics
Medical Properties Trust spent billions buying community hospitals in bewildering deals that made private equity rich and working-class towns reel.
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 inHealth and Social Policy
How Private Equity Makes You Sicker
Investment firms have created consolidated hospital empires across America, leading to closures, higher prices, and suffering.