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Loss for Private Equity, UnitedHealth: Oregon Bans Corporate Control of Doctors

33 pointsby PaulHouletoday at 12:11 AM3 commentsview on HN

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randcrawtoday at 1:23 AM

Next I hope they'll exclude private equity from making a comparable mess of dentistry, veterinary, legal, and every other professional service they've parasitized.

Better yet, let's encourage all service-oriented businesses toward becoming not-for-profit (to serve the customer/patient) or at least ESOPs (to serve the practitioner) rather than blood-sucking Wall Streeters (who serve only themselves).

UltraSanetoday at 2:14 AM

They way private equity firms get a loan to buy a company and then put that loan on the company's balance sheet is self-dealing and should be illegal.

aurizontoday at 1:34 AM

They should add dentists and vets to this interdiction. Huge fee increases over the past ~10 years. In the case of vets = huge increase of pet death under suffering as people can not afford the steep fees.