Private equity faces existential crisis in US as unsold companies pile up

But tens of thousands of layoffs, high bankruptcy rates, and the soaring wealth of dozens of private equity billionaires has created bipartisan momentum for more oversight, even before the current interest rate crisis. And Donald Trump’s push to allow everyday Americans to invest in the sector through their retirement plans has raised new concerns. 

 Congress’s June housing bill curbs private equity investments in single-family homes. November’s midterm elections, which are widely expected to deliver one or both houses of Congress to Democrats, could see a sea change for the industry in Washington, while several states are pursuing their own regulation...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/04/private-equity-boom-hospital-job-layoff

 

 

A For-Profit Hospital Slashed Costs. Then a Patient Froze to Death on Its Roof. – Mother Jones

A little-known company grew on promises to save distressed hospitals. Instead, it sunk them into financial chaos...

 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/07/american-healthcare-systems-michael-sarian-for-profit-private-equity-adolphus-death/ 

She Needed Emergency Care for an Ectopic Pregnancy. The Religious Hospital said “No.”

When Harmonie Perrone arrived at Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital in Illinois with symptoms of an ectopic pregnancy, she knew exactly what treatment she needed. She had been through this before. But because the hospital is religious, it restricted abortion-related care, and Perrone says doctors refused to provide the medication that could have ended the dangerous pregnancy before it became a medical crisis. 

 Instead, Perrone was repeatedly denied treatment by OB/GYN Dr. Dympna Coll, sent to a Catholic facility that also refused to help her, and forced to seek care elsewhere while the clock was ticking. 

 By the time she finally received treatment at Northwestern Medicine, the delay had dramatically increased the risks. Ultimately, surgeons had to remove her remaining fallopian tube, leaving her unable to become pregnant without IVF. 

Now Perrone is suing Advocate Good Shepherd and Dr. Coll for medical negligence and violations of Illinois law. 

But that's not the only lawsuit involved. After Perrone shared her experience on TikTok, Coll sued her for defamation and demanded she take down her videos.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OXgyAvc1JY

A religious hospital denied her a life-saving drug during an ectopic pregnancy. She lost her fertility

 “I kept asking her to help me,” she said. But Coll refused to administer methotrexate, Perrone alleged. As she remembered it, the doctor told her “we have to weigh out the life of the mother and the baby, and there’s a 1% chance that there is a baby in there”. When Perrone asked about her right to an abortion under Illinois law, the doctor said “you’re not going to bully me into doing this”, Perrone said...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/08/illinois-hospital-ectopic-pregnancy

 

Texas children’s hospital to create first detransition clinic in win for Trump

Along with creating what the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, has called the nation’s “first-ever detransition clinic”, Paxton’s office announced that the hospital would also pay the state $10m and has been encouraged to terminate multiple physicians as part of the agreement. Texas children’s will fund all services at the detransition clinic over the first five years, and it will be free for patients. 

The hospital additionally agreed to no longer provide youth with puberty blockers, hormonal therapy or surgery that helps them align with their gender identity, Paxton’s office said...

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/15/trump-texas-detransition-clinic

MAHAspital - SNL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUBVuvstPCs

 

Rural US town outraged as only hospital forced to shut: ‘I would have died without it’ | US healthcare | The Guardian

Nearly 28,000 people relied on Glenn Medical center for its services, but now they will have to travel more than 30 miles for care…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/07/rural-us-town-outraged-as-only-hospital-forced-to-shut-i-would-have-died-without-it 

 

Texas hospital that sent woman home with nonviable pregnancy violated the law, federal inquiry finds | PBS News

"We see patients with miscarriages being denied care, bleeding out in parking lots. We see patients with nonviable pregnancies being told to continue those to term," said Molly Duane, an attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights that represented Thurman. "This is not, maybe, what some people thought abortion bans would look like, but this is the reality."

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/texas-hospital-that-sent-woman-home-with-nonviable-pregnancy-violated-the-law-federal-inquiry-finds

Real conversations in the hospital

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3VnrwPwuUYk

 

 

Catholic hospital ditches "pro-life" rhetoric to avoid malpractice lawsuit payout

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYe6B9D6dpw

 

After lawsuit, Catholic hospital in California will provide emergency abortion care

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82fo5s-RE68

US supreme court rejects Biden’s bid to force Texas to provide emergency abortions

Justices turn away appeal of lower court's decision that halted enforcement of federal guidance…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/07/supreme-court-biden-abortion

California Sues Catholic Hospital for Denying Emergency Abortion Care – Mother Jones

…Nusslock's water broke at 15 weeks—far too early for the fetuses to survive—leaving her in excruciating pain and at high risk of developing a severe infection if treatment was delayed. According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the standard of care in such cases is to remove the fetuses in a procedure akin to an emergency abortion. One of the twins had already died. But medical staff at the Catholic hospital allegedly told Nusslock that because the other twin still had a detectable heartbeat, Catholic ethical rules prevented them from ending the pregnancy until Nusslock's life was in danger…

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/09/california-bonta-catholic-hospital-abortion-lawsuit/

Canadian family sues after Catholic hospital prolongs their daughter's suffering

Despite chemotherapy and radiation, her disease was terminal, and the pain quickly became overwhelming. She wanted to end life on her own terms. 

But in Canada, where that procedure is legal, the taxpayer-funded Catholic hospital she was at still wouldn't allow it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCRvPFJYZko

hospital bill in the US vs France #usa #france #healthcare #cultureshock...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xARgZ7ggIvk

Joe Biden visited Walter Reed in February for a physical. He was not ‘rushed’ to the hospital - PolitiFact

"I'm going to Walter Reed to get my physical," he told reporters as he walked across the lawn in a misty rain with a drink in hand. He then boarded Marine One, the presidential helicopter…

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2024/mar/06/benny-johnson/joe-biden-visited-walter-reed-in-february-for-a-ph/

Hospital debacle puts focus on private equity

It also comes as the Biden administration launched an investigation into private equity acquisitions of health care providers. 

Just yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission held a virtual workshop during which such deals were heavily criticized...

https://www.axios.com/2024/03/06/hospital-debacle-private-equity-cerberus-steward 

Opinion | ‘Violence Has Become a Daily Occurrence In Our Hospitals’ - The New York Times

In some sense, violence in the E.R. is stark evidence of society's broader neglect: a medical system in which mental health beds are scarce, primary care remains elusive and prescription costs soar; a shelter network that's buckling; a country where parents may not make enough to feed their children. All of this can lead to intolerable overcrowding and interminable waiting in the E.R., which can rupture into frustration, anger and incivility...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/24/opinion/emergency-room-hospitals-violence.html

Another Idaho hospital announces it can no longer deliver babies - Idaho Capital Sun

Valor Health's decision to stop offering labor and delivery care in Emmett comes on the heels of a North Idaho hospital shuttering its maternity services. 

It also comes as the Idaho Legislature is on track to defund research into preventing maternal deaths; as state lawmakers have banned nearly all abortions; and as Idaho chooses not extend its postpartum Medicaid coverage...

https://idahocapitalsun.com/briefs/another-idaho-hospital-announces-it-can-no-longer-deliver-babies/

A Police Killing Inside a Hospital: Ben Crump on Death of Irvo Otieno During a Mental Health crisis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNmiP79lfWw