Wolf Richter: How Employees & Employers Get Bled by Health Insurance
Health insurance costs will kill you if your medical issues don’t get you first.
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Who Advocates For Surprise Medical Billing? – Private Equity Hides Behind Physicians’ White Coats
Private equity is a danger to your health via its role in suprise billing. To hang onto its meal ticket, it is funding dark money group and ads to block legislation.
Read more...CalPERS Short-Changed by CIM in Pay-to-Play/Bribery Scandal; Looks Like Apollo Stiffed CalPERS Too
How CalPERS was cheated by conniving fund managers, as is pervasive among private equity investors.
Read more...Another School Leadership Disaster: Private Companies Work an Insider Game to Reap Lucrative Contracts
Firms that help place handpicked candidates in school leadership positions use those connections to sell other products and services.
Read more...Air Ambulances Woo Rural Consumers With Memberships That May Leave Them Hanging
A patient could believe his or her emergency air transport was taken care of, only to face a rude awakening when the bill came.
Read more...Hubert Horan: Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Twenty-One: Mike Isaac’s Book Ignores Economics and Financial Results and Gets the Uber Story Almost Entirely Wrong
Mike Isaac’s Super Pumped!, a new book on Uber, draws fundamentally false conclusions about the company.
Read more...Under Bloomberg Pressure, CalPERS Coughs Up BCG Report on Private Equity, Confirming Criminal Abuse of Open Meeting Law; Board President Henry Jones Casually Leaks Confidential Information
A peek into how CalPERS abuses confidentiality when public agencies are supposed to be public.
Read more...Private Equity and Surprise Medical Billing
Private equity has glommed onto the healthcare sector, and drives the “surprise” medical billing. phenomenon.
Read more...Hedge Fund Chatham Sends Nastygram Over NY Post Removal of “Parked Transaction” in Piece on Questionable Deals Involving American Media, Owner of National Enquirer. CalPERS Too.
Hedge fund Chatham is might upset about a phrase we picked up from a New York Post article on Chatham funds’ investment, including a CalPERS fund, in the parent of the notorious National Enquirer.
Read more...Apollo Doth Protest Too Much: Our Leon Black-Jeff Epstein Post Elicits Intervention by Apollo’s Flack
Apollo looks unduly anxious.
Read more...CalPERS in Bed With Jeffrey Epstein Client and Co-Investor, Apollo’s Leon Black Even After Apollo Pay-to-Play Scandal Led to Conviction and Jail Term for Former CalPERS CEO
CalPERS is worried about being tainted by its association with Leon Black of Apollo. CalPERS should be a lot more worried about its wallet.
Read more...Private Equity: The Perps Behind Destructive Hospital Surprise Billing
How private equity ginned up yet another abuse.
Read more...As Risky Finances Alienate Investors, Fracking Companies Look to Retirement Funds for Cash
Latest DeSmogBlog coverage of fracking follies: the still unprofitable industry turns to pension funds and private equity for capital.
Read more...Elizabeth Warren Seeks to Cut Private Equity Down to Size
Elizabeth Warren’s bill to end private equity abuses targets a wide range of bad practices.
Read more...Everything’s Fine Until Suddenly it Isn’t: How a “Leveraged Loan” Blows Up
A post-mortem of a leveraged loan bust: private equity wins, too bad for everyone holding the bag.
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