What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - When Private Equity Gets in to Health Care
What’s something expensive that people have no choice but to buy?
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Show 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 healthcare 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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