KKR took one of the nation's largest healthcare providers, #Envision, hostage to surprise billing, making it dependent on these fraudulent payments. When Congress finally acted to end this scam, KKR was able to take to the nation's editorial pages and damn Congress for recklessly endangering all the patients who relied on it:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/03/14/unhealthy-finances/#steins-law
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Like any smart vampire, KKR doesn't drain its victim in one go. They find all kinds of ways to stretch out the blood supply. During the pandemic, KKR was front of the line to get massive bailouts for its health-care holdings, even as it fired health-care workers, increasing the workload and decreasing the pay of the survivors of its indiscriminate cuts:
https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/11/socialized-losses/#socialized-losses
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It's not just emergency rooms. KKR bought and looted homes for people with disabilities, slashed wages, cut staff, and then feigned surprise at the deaths, abuse and misery that followed:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kendalltaggart/kkr-brightspring-disability-private-equity-abuse
Workers' wages went down to $8/hour, and they were given *36 hour shifts*, and then KKR threatened to have any worker who walked off the job *criminally charged* with patient abandonment:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/02/plunderers/#farben
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