April 11, 2024

Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage Healthcare

To put it bluntly, private equity is laundering their greed through the good will of healthcare. Brendan Ballou, a federal prosecutor who served as Special Counsel for Private Equity in the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division and author of “Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage America”, joins us to talk about how PE has taken over healthcare, and what we can do about it.
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“We need to talk about what is ailing our healthcare system and marshall the troops. This isn’t going to change by a bunch of physicians complaining to their employer. Promise you.” – Matt Ramsey

“We’re in the we’re in the middle of a freaking Armageddon and we’re supposed to be polite. I mean, goodness gracious, what is that?” – Matt Ramsey

“I think the fact that we can no longer have gallows humor, that we can no longer have vulgarity, that we can’t raise our voices sometimes it’s all lunacy.” – Wendy Dean

 

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43cc wants to be factual and informational and be hopeful in a way that provides a mechanism to get through this mess and try to be better together.

Moral injury plays a major role in this circumstance as well.

If I Betray These Words… By Wendy Dean, MD

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