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By Fred Schulte
By Katie Palmer
By Ganny Belloni
By Bob Herman
U.S. Right to Know
When profit kills: How private equity is eroding health care
by Pamela Ferdinand
A Health Podyssey
Podcast: How Oregon’s Hospital Payment Cap Brought Stability Amid Change
Featuring Roslyn Murray. Video recording can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSpewnFxlmA&list=PLIOPYzSfs3z5G7yjt1UWy5cynn2I-zsdz&index=1
The New York Times
‘Like a Timeshare’: Doctors Get Creative as Rents Climb
By Jane Margolies
The Boston Globe
Should Rhode Island save its failing hospitals?
By Andrew Ryan and Emily Shearer
By Selena Simmons-Duffin
A new study from researchers at the Brown University School of Public Health highlights a push from private equity investors into autism therapy centers across the nation.
By HealthDay
by Shaanth Nanguneri
By Casey Ross and Tara Bannow
The Oregonian/OregonLive
Oregon’s first-in-nation hospital price cap hasn’t hurt care, finances so far, study finds
By Kristine de Leon
An Arm and a Leg
Some more things that didn’t suck in 2025
"New state laws tackle the burden of medical debt and the corporate take-over of medicine."
by Kimberly Marselas
The Economist
How to lower America’s soaring health-care costs
Meaningful opportunities to reduce U.S. health-care costs already exist but are often overshadowed by the focus on more politically prominent proposals.
Interview by Rob Lott
By Mario Aguilar
The article explains how growing consolidation among insurers, hospitals, and physician groups is driving higher prices and fewer choices for patients, while current antitrust tools struggle to keep up with these increasingly complex mergers.
The Providence Journal
It's open enrollment time in RI. How to choose between Medicare, Medicare Advantage
While Medicare Advantage offers many advantages, it also has drawbacks that should be considered
Researchers said the results suggest UnitedHealth may be sidestepping government rules meant to keep a lid on exorbitant payer profits.
Researchers found UnitedHealthcare paid 17% more to Optum than to other providers.
The trend toward investor ownership is part of a broader national shift in health-care consolidation, said Hayden Rooke-Ley, a senior fellow at Brown University’s School of Public Health. Over the last decade, large non-hospital retailers such as Amazon and Walgreens, along with insurance conglomerates, have restructured to own or manage medical practices, drug distributors and wholesalers.
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