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Revealing the dark truth about the impact of predatory private
equity firms on American health care. Finalist of the American Book
Fest Best Book Social Change and Current Events by the American
Book Fest Private equity (PE) firms pervade all aspects of our
modern lives. Unlike other corporations, which generally
manufacture products or provide services, they leverage
considerable debt and other people's money to buy and sell
businesses with the sole aim of earning supersized profits in the
shortest time possible. With a voracious appetite and trillions of
dollars at its disposal, the private equity industry is now buying
everything from your opioid treatment center to that helicopter
that helps swoop you up from a car crash site. It may even control
how and when you can get your kidney dialysis. In Ethically
Challenged, Laura Katz Olson describes how PE firms are gobbling up
physician and dental practices; home care and hospice agencies;
substance abuse, eating disorder, and autism services; urgent care
facilities; and emergency medical transportation. With a sharp eye
on cost and quality of care, Olson investigates the PE industry's
impact on these essential services. She explains how PE firms pile
up massive debt on their investment targets and how they bleed
these enterprises with assorted fees and dividends for themselves.
Throughout, she argues that public pension funds, which provide the
preponderance of equity for PE buyouts, tend to ignore the pesky
fact that their money may be undermining the very health care
system their workers and retirees rely on. Weaving together
insights from interviews with business owners and experts,
newspaper articles, purchased data sets, and industry publications,
Olson offers a unique perspective and appreciation of the
significance of PE investments in health care. The first book to
comprehensively address private equity and health care, Ethically
Challenged raises the curtain on an industry notorious for its
secrecy, exposing the nefarious side of its maneuvers.
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The Butcher (Paperback)
Laura Kat Young
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A suspenseful small-town horror novel of oppression, heartbreak and
buried anguish - Shirley Jackson meets Never Let Me Go with the
wild west setting of Westworld. When Lady Mae turns 18, she'll
inherit her mother's job as the Butcher: dismembering Settlement
Five's guilty residents as payment for their petty crimes. An index
finger taken for spreading salacious gossip, a foot for blasphemy,
no one is exempt from punishment. But one day Winona refuses to
butcher a six-year-old boy. So their leaders, known as the
Deputies, come to Lady Mae's house, and, right there in the living
room, murder her mother for refusing her duties. Within twenty-four
hours, now alone in the world, Lady Mae begins her new job. But a
chance meeting years later puts her face to face with the Deputy
that murdered her mother. Now Lady Mae must choose: will she flee,
and start another life in the desolate mountains, forever running?
Or will she seek vengeance for her mother's death even if it kills
her?A devastating, alarming page-turner infused with melancholy,
humanity - and society's maddening acceptance in the face of
horror.
In 1965, the United States government enacted legislation to
provide low-income individuals with quality health care and related
services. Initially viewed as the friendless stepchild of Medicare,
Medicaid has grown exponentially since its inception, becoming a
formidable force of its own. Funded jointly by the national
government and each of the fifty states, the program is now the
fourth most expensive item in the federal budget and the second
largest category of spending for almost every state. Now, under the
new, historic health care reform legislation, Medicaid is scheduled
to include sixteen million more people.
Laura Katz Olson, an expert on health, aging, and long-term care
policy, unravels the multifaceted and perplexing puzzle of Medicaid
with respect to those who invest in and benefit from the program.
Assessing the social, political, and economic dynamics that have
shaped Medicaid for almost half a century, she helps readers of all
backgrounds understand the entrenched and powerful interests woven
into the system that have been instrumental in swelling costs and
holding elected officials hostage. Addressing such fundamental
questions as whether patients receive good care and whether
Medicaid meets the needs of the low-income population it is
supposed to serve, Olson evaluates the extent to which the program
is an appropriate foundation for health care reform.
An ever-more diverse America is getting older, but American
policies are not growing with the needs of our ethnic and aging
society. Age Through Ethnic Lenses explores the distinct
characteristics and unique social, political, economic, and
cultural situations of America's aged, while highlighting the
common needs and objectives among all aging Americans. With
portraits of Asians, Latinos, individuals of European and African
origins, Native Americans, Socio-religious groups, women, gay men
and women, and the rural aged, this book broadens our perspective
on the issues of long-term care, and provides a valuable guide for
future public policy as we enter the twenty-first century.
An ever-more diverse America is getting older, but American
policies are not growing with the needs of our ethnic and aging
society. Age Through Ethnic Lenses explores the distinct
characteristics and unique social, political, economic, and
cultural situations of America's aged, while highlighting the
common needs and objectives among all aging Americans. With
portraits of Asians, Latinos, individuals of European and African
origins, Native Americans, Socio-religious groups, women, gay men
and women, and the rural aged, this book broadens our perspective
on the issues of long-term care, and provides a valuable guide for
future public policy as we enter the twenty-first century.
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