On his Not Running a Hospital blog, Paul Levy discussed reasons for concern when private equity firms purchase and operate hospitals. He u...
Showing posts with label Steward Health Care. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Steward Health Care. Show all posts
BLOGSCAN - When Private Equity Owns Hospitals
On his Not Running a Hospital blog, Paul Levy discussed reasons for concern when private equity firms purchase and operate hospitals. He u...
Should Health Care be a "'Commodity, Subordinate to the Laws of the Market?" - a Powerful Rebuttal
In the US, it has become the accepted wisdom that health care is now an industry, not a calling or a profession, and the health care it prod...
Hype, Spin and Health Care: the Case of an Apparently Failed Hospital Purchase by Steward Health Care
Health care is drowning in a sea of hype and spin. We have frequently posted about deceptive marketing used to sell drugs, devices, and h...
Private Equity, Obfuscatory Advertising, and Making Health Care a Commodity: Lessons from Cerberus Capital Management
Steward Health Care vs Rhode Island Blue Cross Blue Shield: How Public Relations Twists the Narrative
How the Anechoic Effect Is Institutionalized - A Hospital Policy Against Unsupervised Discussion with the Media
In a single sentence, a short, obscure article in the Worcester (MA) Business Journal on life at a community hospital after a for-profit cor...
CEOs First to Benefit from For-Profit Takeovers of Non-Profit Hospitals
Last year, we noted concerns about the againy fashionable practice of for-profit corporations taking over previously not-for-profit hospita...
Here Comes Your New Doctor, Brought to You By UnitedHealth
A long time ago, practicing physicians were mainly self-employed solo practitioners. As health care became more bureaucratic, physicians for...
Conflicts of Interest, Government Leaders, and Private Health Care Organizations
There seems to be a small surge of stories about conflicts of interest regarding health care affecting government leaders who can affect hea...
Those Big Doors Keep Revolving
A few months ago, we discussed the revolving door that seems to connect US government leadership positions and leadership positions of comm...
