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The Mystery of the Fugitive Founder (and Longterm President of an Offshore Medical School for US Students)
We recently wrote about for-profit medical schools located offshore from the US, but catering to American students, not students from the c...
The Door Revolves Again: the Former White House Health Reform Czar Goes to Private Equity Firm Looking for Investments Created by Health Reform
Round and round it goes, and when it will stop, nobody knows. Background: The Former Health Care Reform Czar's Past Career It appears th...
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Health Care Reform,
private equity,
revolving doors
Deadly Over-Doses and Private Equity - the Case of Bain Capital's Methadone Clinics
Some reporting by Bloomberg provides more evidence about what happens when direct care of the most vulnerable patients is commercialized. T...
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adverse effects,
Bain Capital,
CRC Health,
narcotics,
private equity
BLOGSCAN - When Private Equity Owns Hospitals
On his Not Running a Hospital blog, Paul Levy discussed reasons for concern when private equity firms purchase and operate hospitals. He u...
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Cerberus,
private equity,
Steward Health Care
Private Equity, Obfuscatory Advertising, and Making Health Care a Commodity: Lessons from Cerberus Capital Management
Private Equity vs Patient Care - a Bainful Example
A long investigative report in Salon summarized allegations about the quality of care in various treatment centers owned by Aspen Education...
How the Anechoic Effect Is Institutionalized - A Hospital Policy Against Unsupervised Discussion with the Media
In a single sentence, a short, obscure article in the Worcester (MA) Business Journal on life at a community hospital after a for-profit cor...
"Barbarians at the Gate" - Making Private Equity Less Private, and Understanding Its Effects on Health Care
One good byproduct of the tumultuous everlasting 2012 campaign for the US presidency has been to shed light on a number of political and eco...
CEOs First to Benefit from For-Profit Takeovers of Non-Profit Hospitals
Last year, we noted concerns about the againy fashionable practice of for-profit corporations taking over previously not-for-profit hospita...
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By Molly Burchett Kentucky Health News Part of the sales pitch for the federal health-care reform law was that people could keep their do...
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Obamacare is impacting the small group insurance market in many of the same ways as the individual health insurance market. While employers ...
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I've read a number of reports in recent days gushing over the progress Covered California is making leading the nation in signing up peo...
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Many hunter-gatherer groups employed various methods of drying to preserve meats. Drying also increases significantly the protein content ... -
I think you can guess who said that. Actually, here is what the President said at the American Medical Association Meeting in July, 2009––an...
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The title of this post is the exact title of a recent editorial in the American Journal of Cardiology ( 1 ). Investigators calculated the ...
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Responding to a letter from Kentuckians for Nursing Home Reform , which cited a low ranking for the state's nursing homes, Gov. Steve B...
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Humana , one of the three insurance companies offering individual health policies on the state's insurance exchange, will allow Kentuck...
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Almost a fourth of the inmates in Kentucky's prisons and jails have a mental-health issue, and it's part of a growing national probl...
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Gov. Steve Beshear continues to be a major national cheerleader for the federal health-reform law, citing Kentucky examples in an op-ed piec...
