When Private Equity Gets Into Health Care
What’s something expensive that people have no choice but to buy?
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Episode Notes
Private equity firms have been buying up doctors’ offices and hospitals around the country. But if profits are the primary goal, what happens to the cost and quality of health care for patients?
Guest: Gretchen Morgenson, senior financial reporter for the NBC News investigative unit and co-author of These Are the Plunderers: How Private Equity Runs—and Wrecks—America.
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Podcast production by Evan Campbell, Patrick Fort, and Anna Phillips.
