Why Private Equity Is Buying Hospitals & Shutting Them Down
Last month, a woman showed up to a hospital in Pennsylvania with a barely breathing baby — only to find the hospital closed.
Why? The hospital’s owner sent millions to private equity investors instead of investing in healthcare.
Now patients and workers are paying the price.
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@steffski1946
August 24, 2025 at 10:02 pm
When are folks going to realize that unregulated capitalism is showing itself to be lethal to our society, a veritable death machine
@janedoe1435
August 24, 2025 at 10:02 pm
The rich don't give af about anything but profit.
@Roni-rc2oo
August 24, 2025 at 10:02 pm
This is absolutely disgusting!!!!!!
@joanneholcombe735
August 24, 2025 at 10:02 pm
Private equity is scooping up homes, too…
@StevenTorrey
August 24, 2025 at 10:02 pm
You can be sure the Private Equity Firm earned billions…
@hurzak
August 24, 2025 at 10:02 pm
Will the Republicans defend private equity, I'm sure they will. The billionaires own them.
@deborahwhit9583
August 24, 2025 at 10:02 pm
Bullshit, most hospitals are "DIVE" HOSPITALS
Unsanitary, nasty place. Overpaid LAZY NURSES AND AIDES
@muchadoaboutsomething
August 24, 2025 at 10:02 pm
Government should step in and stop this immediately!
@DyingRaceApocolyps
August 24, 2025 at 10:02 pm
Late stage capitalism at its finest
@ericjohnson6105
August 24, 2025 at 10:02 pm
There's more money in gutting the hospital and eventually selling it than actually healing people. That's what private equity does, gut a business until its a skeleton, eats the marrow and sells the bones off to another sucker to try and repeat. They have absolutely no interest in the business that the business they bought is supposed to do.
@Gator777
August 24, 2025 at 10:02 pm
Because they are gold mines. Pull the money out of the business and file bankruptcy. All about greed. Ponzi scheme.
@CPAndy-x5x
August 24, 2025 at 10:02 pm
AND WHAT DID THE REPUBLICAN PENNSYLVANIA SENATE DO?
@CPAndy-x5x
August 24, 2025 at 10:02 pm
But care was supposed to be better with for-profit health care.
@arthurfleck1554
August 24, 2025 at 10:02 pm
The JUICE, are behind it all.
@Historyrepeatsallthetime
August 24, 2025 at 10:02 pm
Trump scum did this. We all now get to experience hell.
@ericmiller4784
August 24, 2025 at 10:02 pm
It took me a while to realize that "Del-aire County" is actually Delaware County.
I've been told my entire life that our health- care system is the envy of the world, and I believed it. I realize now that we are just the laughing stock of the world. No wonder folk dance in the street when one of their CEOs is… well, you know.
@FriedChickenCandy-o3v
August 24, 2025 at 10:02 pm
lol. who cares
@CB-et6jo
August 24, 2025 at 10:02 pm
Like remortaging a home???
@laveraparato258
August 24, 2025 at 10:02 pm
This is so evil. I'm thrilled that some doctors are bucking the system by becoming concierge doctors. But this doesn't help with emergency care or complicated procedures.
@danunal0l
August 24, 2025 at 10:02 pm
Americans discovering public and non profit healthcare's function.
@annham4136
August 24, 2025 at 10:02 pm
These investors are stealing the value in real estate on what are mostly hospitals established by religious organizations in previous generations. Their assets are undervalued and most are off the books. Simply put, the land associated with hospitals and medical facilities needs to be set aside as providing for the welfare of the community and not allowed to be sold for another purpose.
@adamrhome8055
August 24, 2025 at 10:02 pm
Right… cause the retail deserts wasn't enough… now they're doing the same thing to healthcare!
@lindaelston4728
August 24, 2025 at 10:02 pm
Any connections with Blackrock or Blackstone???
@psychfred
August 24, 2025 at 10:02 pm
Private Equity needs to be OUTLAWED. It’s the mob legalized – End Stage Bully Capitalism/Soulless Evil People who use the rules against people who follow the rules. Won’t work. Eliminate this Private Equity Sociopaths.
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