{"id":32617,"date":"2025-02-06T12:15:31","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T12:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/06\/us-health-department-condemns-private-equity-firms-for-role-in-declining-healthcare-access\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T12:15:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T12:15:31","slug":"us-health-department-condemns-private-equity-firms-for-role-in-declining-healthcare-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/06\/us-health-department-condemns-private-equity-firms-for-role-in-declining-healthcare-access\/","title":{"rendered":"US health department condemns private equity firms for role in declining healthcare access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government report says private equity investment in nursing homes led to 11% increase in patient deaths<\/p>\n<p>Private equity investment firms have been slammed for their role in the declining healthcare quality and access, as well as the rising costs for patients, in a recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hhs.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/hhs-consolidation-health-care-markets-rfi-response-report.pdf\">released report<\/a> from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).<\/p>\n<p>Market consolidation and private equity investment can have deadly consequences in the healthcare industry, says the report, which dropped mere days before Donald Trump retook the Oval Office.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/06\/private-equity-healthcare\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government report says private equity investment in nursing homes led to 11% increase in patient deaths Private equity investment firms have been slammed for their role in the declining healthcare quality and access, as well as the rising costs for patients, in a recently released report from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). &#8230; <a title=\"US health department condemns private equity firms for role in declining healthcare access\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/06\/us-health-department-condemns-private-equity-firms-for-role-in-declining-healthcare-access\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US health department condemns private equity firms for role in declining healthcare access\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}