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Kindness, Truth, Human Rights, #Democracy #NoLizardBrains #BlackLivesMatter 💔Sandy Hook 12/14/12💔

[🇺🇦🌻PIRANDELLO🌻🇺🇦 @Halflight99]

@ViQueenie Oh, please. You people create your own fairy tales. Get a life.

[🇺🇦🌻PIRANDELLO🌻🇺🇦 @Halflight99]

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[Felix Prehn 🐶 @felixprehn]

Private equity firms bought 500 hospitals. Death rates in their emergency rooms went up 13%. They fired 12% of the staff. Then they paid themselves billions in dividends.

A Harvard study just confirmed what doctors already knew: people are dying so investors can hit quarterly targets.

Exactly what happens. A PE firm buys a hospital using debt. The debt gets placed on the hospital's balance sheet, not the firm's. Now the hospital owes hundreds of millions it never borrowed. To service that debt, the hospital cuts costs. Costs mean nurses.

The numbers from the Harvard/University of Chicago study are horrifying. After PE acquisition, emergency department salary spending dropped 18.2%. ICU salary spending dropped 15.9%. Hospital-wide employees were cut 11.6%. Emergency department deaths rose 13%, seven additional deaths per 10,000 visits.

A separate study found patients undergoing surgery at PE-acquired hospitals had 17% higher odds of dying within 90 days.

Steward Health Care, owned by Cerberus Capital, filed bankruptcy with $9 billion in debt after closing hospitals across Massachusetts. The CEO lived on a $40 million yacht while emergency rooms went dark. Eight hospitals serving 2 million people nearly disappeared because a PE fund extracted more cash than the system could survive.

The private equity industry has poured over $1 trillion into healthcare. They operate a quarter of ERs nationwide. This isn't going away.

The investing angle nobody talks about.

Non-PE hospital operators like HCA Healthcare (HCA) and Tenet (THC) are the direct beneficiaries. Every time a PE hospital closes or deteriorates, patients flow to the nearest competitor. HCA has returned 1,200% since 2011. Patient volume from PE closures is a structural tailwind nobody's pricing in.

Medical staffing firms (AMN Healthcare, Cross Country) charge premium rates specifically because PE hospitals cut staff. The staffing shortage IS the business model for these companies.

The disruption play: outpatient surgical centers (SCA Health, now part of UnitedHealth) are pulling profitable procedures out of hospitals entirely. PE-owned hospitals lose their highest-margin surgeries to outpatient, and the death spiral accelerates.

Pull up tradevision and monitor healthcare M&A alerts, hospital closure filings, and patient volume migration data. When a PE-owned hospital announces "restructuring," the patient volume shift to competitors like HCA starts within 30 days. That 30-day window is when the competitor's earnings revisions haven't updated yet. Free to try.

(a private equity firm bought your local hospital. borrowed $500 million in the hospital's name. fired 12% of the nurses. emergency room deaths rose 13%. then they paid themselves dividends. nobody went to prison. they're currently buying another hospital.)

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

I keep seeing people ask about the 25th Amendment.

Guys. His entire Cabinet is walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they’re scared to take them off.

The 25th is never happening.

[🇺🇦🌻PIRANDELLO🌻🇺🇦 @Halflight99]

@Matt_Pinner @Bob78308342 Rugby, cricket, golf, lacrosse, polo, and on and on…

[🇺🇦🌻PIRANDELLO🌻🇺🇦 @Halflight99]

Your Job May Already Be in Jeopardy https://t.co/Y1JMUExO5b via @NYTOpinion

[Rebeccat @TolenRebecca]

@Angry_Staffer “BREAKING: A study finds ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini deployed tactical nuclear weapons in 95% of 21 simulated war game scenarios and never surrendered
It’s so fucking over”

[🇺🇦🌻PIRANDELLO🌻🇺🇦 @Halflight99]

@elonmusk Sure, Karen. 🤡

[Henry Winkler @hwinkler4real]

A thought to consider

[John Fugelsang @JohnFugelsang]

Here’s a great idea - let’s get the most amoral celebrity racist douchebag from the 80s, make him president, and then be blindly obedient to him while normalizing fascist shit that hurts large numbers of people.

Because we’re so Christian.

[linda Jean 💜🇺🇸🇧🇻🇺🇦🇯🇴☮🎶💚🌈 @LindaNesseth]

@Angry_Staffer

[Austin @austinfgreen]

@PeterTwinklage

[Waliyy | Digital Creator @Walweb35]

🚨New analysis of footage may confirm earlier reports about the Minneapolis shooting.

[Stephen King @StephenKing]

All this crap generated about Greenland and Venezuela is just to distract from the Epstein Files, which have still not been released. In defiance of the law, might I add.
RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.

[Steve Redmond @sjredmond]

@allenanalysis Why are we talking about Greenland?

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

This is George Retes, a U.S. Citizen and Army Iraq War veteran. He was illegally detained by Trump’s ICE for over three days in isolation without access to an attorney or a phone. Now, he’s suing the Trump Administration.

RETWEET if you stand with Retes against Trump!

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

"I'm an anti-Zionist, because I'm the daughter of holocaust survivors. The Shoah is baked into my DNA, and that's why I call for Palestinian liberation. It's not anti-semitic to be anti-Zionist. It's not anti-semitic to call what's happening in Gaza genocide."

Elsa Auerbach - Jewish-American Author

[Marlene Robertson🇨🇦 @marlene4719]

Jack Smith’s deposition:
“Trump was getting calls from people he trusted. People begging him to act. And he still refused to help the Capitol.

That’s not confusion. That’s not delay.

That’s evidence of criminal intent.”

[🇺🇦🌻PIRANDELLO🌻🇺🇦 @Halflight99]

@Citizen54S @WilliamWolfe Exactly. Creating a divisive issue when it doesn’t even exist. Rage baiting.

[🇺🇦🌻PIRANDELLO🌻🇺🇦 @Halflight99]

@FFT1776 Who cares what you’d do.