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You Can Thank Private Equity for That Enormous Doctor’s Bill (www.wsj.com)

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 58 points 3 months ago

You can think private equity for expensive everything.

And also all of your favorite stores and restaurants closing down for no good reason.

[-] SacredHeartAttack@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

Came here to say this. Thank you for beating me to it.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

If civilization survives, our descendants are going to look back at private equity firms and wonder why we allowed such things to exist.

[-] OsaErisXero@kbin.run 11 points 3 months ago

If civilization is going to survive, leaving this specific problem to our descendents won't be an option. Private Equity is an us problem, and we need to treat it like one.

[-] Balthazar@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Paywall.

Out of curiosity, how can there be 30 upvotes on a paywalled article? Do they all have WSJ subscriptions?

[-] MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 35 points 3 months ago

Mainly just people reading the headline, upvoting, then continue scrolling (I am guilty of this as a lurker). Working in healthcare, I don't even need to read this article to know it's true. Private equity is the antithesis of good public healthcare.

[-] applepie@kbin.social 4 points 3 months ago

They have been taking over practices since at least early 2010s.

By the time this shit goes normie stream, the fuckening has already happened.

Privacy is another example lol

[-] impure9435@kbin.run 5 points 3 months ago

Use archive.is to access the full article

[-] insaan@leftopia.org 3 points 3 months ago

Here: https://archive.is/20240601043255/https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/you-can-thank-private-equity-for-that-enormous-doctors-bill-3a2fc90b

[-] ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

You're certainly right about observing this incongruity. It's probably one statement that feels so obviously correct that people upvote it without even bothering to read the article.

[-] Xatolos@reddthat.com 3 points 3 months ago

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome?tab=readme-ov-file

[-] CatOnTheChainWax@lemmy.today 2 points 3 months ago

THANK YOU! I can finally read the NYT now

[-] impure9435@kbin.run 3 points 3 months ago

I recommend switching to Bypass Paywalls Clean, since Bypass Paywalls is not maintained anymore.

[-] CatOnTheChainWax@lemmy.today 2 points 3 months ago

Thank you too!! I tried it last night and I couldn't get into NYT or other sites on the permissions list. I'll try this one today

[-] impure9435@kbin.run 2 points 3 months ago

12ft.io and archive.is are also worth trying out if BPC doesn't work for some reason. There are also self-hosted solutions like 13ft and ladder.

[-] impure9435@kbin.run 2 points 3 months ago

It's not maintained anymore. The last commit is 8 months old. Use Bypass Paywalls Clean instead, here's the Firefox version: https://github.com/bpc-clone/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean

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