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“HHS should study private equity, consolidation, and for-profit ownership in health care, including effects on patients, workers, costs, access, quality, clinical decisions, labor power, outcomes, and disparities, and should give Congress regular findings or recommendations.”
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“For-profit companies tied to health care providers should have to tell HHS who owns and controls them, how money and debt move through the business, how staffing and services changed, whether facilities closed, and what political spending or worker complaints occurred. Private-equity-owned firms should report extra financial and workforce details.”
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“Health care providers and owners should have to send certain REIT real estate sale or lease deals to HHS, and HHS could block deals that seriously weaken a provider's finances or threaten public health. Federal lawyers could enforce those limits in court, and some rent from health care property would lose favorable REIT tax treatment.”
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“Federal agencies should study how Medicare rules relate to health care integration, mergers, and consolidation among providers and payers.”
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“HHS should be able to make private equity-controlled health care firms set aside money for future costs or invest more when closures, service cuts, staff shortages, or unsafe care could harm patients, workers, or nearby providers.”
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“Private equity firms should need an HHS license before buying or investing in health care providers, pay license fees that support safety-net and workforce programs, and risk license loss, forced sale of holdings, or large penalties for violations or harmful practices.”
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“MedPAC should report to Congress every three years on shared ownership among Medicare plans, providers, pharmacies, drug plans, and pharmacy benefit managers, including how those ownership ties may affect access, prices, care quality, and patient results.”
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“Registered investment companies should be barred from stripping assets from health care providers or using practices that hurt care quality, safety, or access, and the SEC should work with HHS to define and prevent those practices.”
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