Private Equity and the Future of US Healthcare

October 5, 2023: Should we expect private equity ownership to have similar effects as hospital-driven acquisitions, or are we witnessing something else entirely different?
Please join Dean Ashish K. Jha and Professor Andy Ryan as we explore the emerging theory and evidence about the impact of private equity in health care including:
Why are private equity firms investing in health care? Do the goals and strategy of private equity differ across sectors (e.g. hospitals, nursing homes, physician practices, and ambulatory surgery centers)?
Is private equity affecting care delivery and spending, including access to care, referral patterns, and health care prices?
How does private equity affect physician work and the substitution of non-physician labor for patient care? How does this compare to the impact of hospital ownership?
What is the lifecycle of private equity investment and how will future divestment affect health care?
Panelists include:
Chris Whaley, Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice
Yashaswini Singh, Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice
Cory King, RI Health Insurance Commissioner
Erin Fuse Brown, Catherine C. Henson Professor of Law; Director Center for Law, Health & Society, Georgia State University College of Law

[@Praisethesunson]

Artificially paywalled access to basic necessities like healthcare is incredibly profitable for about 200,000 very rich people. At the cost of literally millions of lives every single year.

[@jonkay2463]

undeniable problem with "healthcare as basic right" is necessarily declaring the provider to involuntary servitude. more sane to remove all bureaucratic regulations before those "who decide what is best" turn everyone else into slaves and/or criminals.

[@Praisethesunson]

@@jonkay2463 insane and delusional take. The Debt peonage medical staff are all working under for the sake of corporate wealth accumulation has literally already done what you are afraid of the spooky state someday maybe doing. You are just too alienated from the systems that rule you for you to even notice.

[@jonkay2463]

my suggestion for one small step forward = Agent from which the medicare [advantage] contract is obtained should also be a fundamental agent in the medical office billing structure and responsible for arbitrating any billing payment disputes. The last resort option = arbitration = healthcare oversight.

[@carolharrison5780]

RN 30+years. I’m extremely concerned that PE will be conservators for mentally ill, disabled and large homeless populations. So much funding(24 Billion in California)for homeless not accounted for. Like prison systems(but no release date)conservators have captured Californias legal system. PBS has great series on how family members taken, hidden from loved ones, taken over any funds, property, trust and state/federal funds. Own facilities doctors judges and lawyers to diagnose medical issues making them unsafe locked up forever.

[@ypcllc]

As a Registered Nurse Entrepreneur, I am so glad that there are people doing the research to address the policy issues.

[@Roberta-my7qr]

Corporate raiders entered healthcare, because it's where the money is! Will be the biggest impediment to Universal health care. An indication of how terribly society has deteriorated. My husband practiced dentistry for 30 years, and I'm glad he's not around to see this.

[@Mary-il6zz]

PE has no right to be involved with our health care. Healthcare needs be a right not a privilege

[@jonkay2463]

Congratulations on your birthday and anniversary. The points you make are self-evident. Medicine is a gigantic swindle, and has been long before "managed care". Only solution is to uproot it "root and branch". My suggestion is to laminate [on the back of every US driver's license a license ] a license to practice medicine.

[@Praisethesunson]

A nice and then utterly insane comment

[@Cyberchic2]

Blah blah all talk and nothing gets better…this is nothing new🤮

[@Roberta-my7qr]

Thank you for acknowledging my comment. Hearing your intro again, has reactivated my interest in PE and healthcare. I watched an excellent video today about post-war Britain, 1947, and newly elected labour PM Clement Atlee. A period of transformation in terms of Social welfare, particularly the NHS. GOVERNMENT, not the financial markets, took up the reins to advance the needs of the community. Healthcare, transport, banking (even the City of London) were all Nationalized! People over profits.