Deadly Over-Doses and Private Equity - the Case of Bain Capital's Methadone Clinics

Some reporting by Bloomberg provides more evidence about what happens when direct care of the most vulnerable patients is commercialized.  T...

Deadly Over-Doses and Private Equity - the Case of Bain Capital's Methadone Clinics 2015-05-18T19:16:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

The Door Revolves Again: the Former White House Health Reform Czar Goes to Private Equity Firm Looking for Investments Created by Health Reform

Round and round it goes, and when it will stop, nobody knows. Background: The Former Health Care Reform Czar's Past Career It appear...

The Door Revolves Again: the Former White House Health Reform Czar Goes to Private Equity Firm Looking for Investments Created by Health Reform 2015-05-13T02:53:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

The Mystery of the Fugitive Founder (and Longterm President of an Offshore Medical School for US Students)

We recently wrote about for-profit medical schools located offshore from the US, but catering to American students, not students from the c...

The Mystery of the Fugitive Founder (and Longterm President of an Offshore Medical School for US Students) 2015-05-12T21:21:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

"Emotion, not Information" - the Lucrative Deceptive Marketing of Hospice, and its Potentially Fatal Consequences

One of the real recent advances in health care, in my humble opinion, was the organization of compassionate, palliative care for people at t...

"Emotion, not Information" - the Lucrative Deceptive Marketing of Hospice, and its Potentially Fatal Consequences 2015-05-11T20:43:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

The Continuing Mystery of the Fugitive Founder and Missing Money - What it Says About the Opacity of Offshore Medical Schools

The next chapter in the bizarre tale of the fugitive founder of an off-shore (from the US and Canada) Caribbean medical school, and his now ...

The Continuing Mystery of the Fugitive Founder and Missing Money - What it Says About the Opacity of Offshore Medical Schools 2015-05-08T00:09:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown

The Price of Compassion - Commercialized Hospices and the Mistreatment of Vulnerable Patients

Introduction - Commercialized Hospices We have occasionally written about the rise of the commercialized hospice industry, and concerns t...

The Price of Compassion - Commercialized Hospices and the Mistreatment of Vulnerable Patients 2015-05-06T23:21:00-07:00 Rating: 4.5 Diposkan Oleh: Unknown