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Critical coverage of private equity firms — which buy companies and restructure their operations in order to quickly sell them for a profit— has been picking up.
In the last six months:
- Kaiser Health News (KHN) added eight stories and a video primer to its investigative series, “Patients for Profit: How Private Equity Hijacked Health Care.”
- STAT News and Fortune showed how private equity’s move into autism therapy short-changes kids.