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Private equity acquisition of hospitals have led to an increase in deaths among emergency department patients receiving Medicare, according to a recent study published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

I was forced to come to terms with the fact that I was playing a leading role in a system that made desperate people wait months or longer to get care, or go deep into medical debt.

Creating a sane healthcare system will depend on building a massive common movement to free our economy from Wall Street’s wealth extraction.