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1. Millions of Americans are putting their lives at risk to serve others.
Millions have lost their jobs.
Millions are working from home while caring for their children.
Private equity firms are exploiting the pandemic for cash. https://popular.info/p/how-private-equity-is-using-the-pandemic
Millions have lost their jobs.
Millions are working from home while caring for their children.
Private equity firms are exploiting the pandemic for cash. https://popular.info/p/how-private-equity-is-using-the-pandemic
2. In Pennsylvania, a private equity CEO (& major Trump donor) threatened to shut down a hospital in the middle of the pandemic unless it received millions in taxpayer cash
It worked
The private equity firm is now getting paid $8 million from taxpayers https://popular.info/p/how-private-equity-is-using-the-pandemic
It worked
The private equity firm is now getting paid $8 million from taxpayers https://popular.info/p/how-private-equity-is-using-the-pandemic
3. In Philadelphia, a private equity CEO refused to let the city use a completely empty hospital as a quarantine center unless the city paid him $1 million a week.
The city refused and the hospital sits empty in the middle of a pandemic. https://popular.info/p/how-private-equity-is-using-the-pandemic
The city refused and the hospital sits empty in the middle of a pandemic. https://popular.info/p/how-private-equity-is-using-the-pandemic
4. In Washington State, a private equity firm (owned by a Trump fundraiser and confidante) fired an emergency room doctor for speaking out about the lack of personal protective equipment and other unsafe conditions https://popular.info/p/how-private-equity-is-using-the-pandemic
5. Alteon Health, a private equity-owned emergency room staffing firm, has CUT COMPENSATION for 1700 doctors and other ER staff who are risking their lives in the pandemic https://popular.info/p/how-private-equity-is-using-the-pandemic
6. Over the last several years, private equity firms have been buying up ER staffing companies, taking the doctors out of network, and hitting people with massive surprise bills.
Now private equity wants a $3.5 billion bailout for the same firms. https://popular.info/p/how-private-equity-is-using-the-pandemic
Now private equity wants a $3.5 billion bailout for the same firms. https://popular.info/p/how-private-equity-is-using-the-pandemic
7. Private equity is doing this because they figure people are busy trying to stay alive and can't pay that much attention.
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