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Emergency rooms acquired by private equity linked to staffing cuts, salary cuts, and increased death rate (hms.harvard.edu)
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[–] errer@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Every HVAC and plumber in town has been bought up by private equity. They collude on service prices and prices have skyrocketed in recent years. Absolutely horrid for the consumer but line go up so who cares amirite…

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 7 points 1 month ago

With a functioning government, price fixing and collusion would be investigated by the FTC or FBI, if I recall.