Ben Forrest

[Ben Forrest @iambenforrest]

@BudElliott3 Zagrebs

[Ben Forrest @iambenforrest]

@colecubelic @PatMcAfeeShow 38-3

[Angela Morabito @AngelaLMorabito]

Tonight is the 251st anniversary of Paul Revere’s midnight ride.

If he were to make the same journey from Boston to Lexington today, he could stop at 7 Dunkin locations. (via Reddit)

[FitzManMSU @FitzManMSU]

What Curt Cignetti did at Indiana was like taking a minor league team and turning them into the Dodgers

Dusty May pretty much won a World Series with the Mets

We cannot keep doing these comps

[Ben Forrest @iambenforrest]

@SecKennedy @HHSGov @DrOzCMS So frustrating

[Ben Forrest @iambenforrest]

@mvsonwilliams @NickRodecap It’s 75 today

[Felix Nikolas 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.)

[Ben Forrest @iambenforrest]

@OleTimeHardball @BigLeagueDigest Donnie baseball

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

@r0ck3t23 I can’t wait to see how his models account for evolution !

[Ben Forrest @iambenforrest]

@HealthcareAIGuy @withprotegeai Created in Claude Cowork!

[Ben Forrest @iambenforrest]

@bankshot22 @FishersEventCtr @IndyFuel A simple tweet to update the fans would be helpful. Estimates on decision timeline.

[Ben Forrest @iambenforrest]

@FishersEventCtr @IndyFuel @FishersEventCtr @IndyFuel any updates?

[Ben Forrest @iambenforrest]

@espn @SportsCenter Is that Lenny Dykstra?

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here.

[Aiden Fisher @theaidenfisher]

Indiana University and Hoosier Nation, It has been an absolute honor to play in the Cream and Crimson infront of the best fans in the nation. A true blessing to always be a Hoosier. Thank you Indiana!

Hebrews 11:1

[Adewale Ogunleye @aotheprince93]

My God!!!

[Adewale Ogunleye @aotheprince93]

Any issues let me know. I'm come down with back up!!!! #IUWin

[Indiana Edits 🫟 @indiana_edits]

We are starting a #Movement to name this (seemingly unnamed) pond in Bloomington “D’Angelo’s Pond” . Let’s get it done @citybloomington

[CFB Kings @CFBKings]

Indiana has beaten seven teams who won 9+ games this season:

Beat 13-1 Oregon
Beat 12-2 Ohio State
Beat 11-4 Alabama
Beat 10-3 Old Dominion
Beat 10-3 Kennesaw State
Beat 9-4 Illinois
Beat 9-4 Iowa