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Private Equity’s Transformation of American Medicine — Implications for Health Equity

Mar. 2, 2026

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This study, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, investigates how Private equity firms have gained increasing control of U.S. health care infrastructure. Along with other potential consequences, this growth threatens to undermine progress in health equity.