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Oregon bans the corporate practice of medicine (permalink)
Private equity firms are the demon princes of the hellspace that is the imploding, life-destroying, plutocrat-generating American economy. Their favorite scam, the “leveraged buyout” is a mafia bustout dressed up in respectable clothes, and if you mourn a beloved, failed business, chances are that an LBO was the murder weapon, and PE was the killer:

Pluralistic: Red Lobster was killed by private equity, not Endless Shrimp (23 May 2024)


(Despite simplistic explanations and bad-faith apologestics, a leveraged buyout is nothing like a mortgage – it is a sinister, complex, destructive form of financial fraud:)

Pluralistic: Leveraged buyouts are not like mortgages (05 Aug 2024)


As bad as this is, it’s ten quintillion times worse when applied to healthcare. When

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