2+ hour, 56+ min ago  (541+ words) The month-long strike of 31,000 healthcare workers at Kaiser Permanente was abruptly brought to an end by the United Nurses Associations of California/Union of Health Care Professionals (UNAC/UHCP) as a series of legal confrontations arose, which expose the rottenness…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (614+ words) Private equity's incursion into healthcare follows a well-worn, perfidious and predatory playbook employed by financial wizards. Firms will usually opportunistically acquire providers through debt-laden leveraged buyouts promising easy cash flow. But in these schemes, hospitals rather than investors are left…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago  (739+ words) In a chilling briefing last week to the Board of Supervisors, Los Angeles County CEO Fesia Davenport laid out a sweeping plan to impose unprecedented austerity measures that would gut critical public services, dismantle vital social programs and even shut…...