Growth of Private Equity in US Health Care | Drudge Retort

Tuesday, September 29, 2026

Growth of Private Equity in US Health Care

Overall, research has found that PE involvement in health care has led to changes in the workforce, increased costs and utilization, mixed effects on quality of care, and a lower percentage of Medicare patient discharges, implying an increase in privately insured patients with higher reimbursement rates ...

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If private equity executives hollow out hospitals and nursing homes and people die, they should face real consequences. Health care should be about patients, not profits.

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... Private equity transactions are difficult to regulate and often not reviewed by antitrust authorities, as they tend to be below the federal mandatory reporting threshold (Federal Trade Commission A, 2020). More than 90% of PE-related takeovers or investments are not reviewed as there is little regulation of PE investment (Schulte, 2022). The acquisitions that are reviewed can still have widespread impacts on health care markets. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-28 08:00 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

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So, private equity seems to have found a very profitable area, with low regulation.

An area, health-care for profit, where it seems to prioritize profits over patients?

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-09-28 08:01 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Ripe and ready.

#3 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2026-09-30 06:22 AM | Reply

National health care, now. Tax the crap out of the billionaires until the debt is under control and until the children of the poor get the same health care as the kids of the billionaires.

#4 | Posted by Hughmass at 2026-09-30 06:29 AM | Reply

PE vampires have fucked the housing market and are now poised to fuck the health care industry more than it already is.

The bribes they pay to Congress will buy their silence.

#5 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-09-30 07:07 AM | Reply

Before health care became a for profit enterprise under Nixon, people could afford to get health care.

Ever since then it has become prohibitively expensive and lowest in quality.

Workers currently pay $300 per week to pay $7000 if they're ever hospitalized. It's a scam.

#6 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-09-30 07:09 AM | Reply

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