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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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the families of those who die in nursing homes

Require reporting on the ultimate parent entity of nursing homes. Private equity firms often obscure their ultimate ownership of nursing homes to avoid legal liability. The Center for Medicare or Medicaid Services has regulations that require homes to disclose any investors with a 5 percent or grea…

—p.231 Plunder: Private Equity's Plan to Pillage America An Agenda for Reform (226) by Brendan Ballou
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the key cards of fired admissions staff

The salespeople were themselves under tremendous pressure. Managers allegedly forced people to stand at their desks when they missed sales targets and prodded them to make bets on one another’s performances.95 One manager had a “Guess Who” game where she showed her team’s metrics and asked people t…

—p.187 Privatizing the Public Sector: Private Equity in Local Government (175) by Brendan Ballou
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ambulances were once free

The 911 dispatch was just one small part of private equity’s expansion into emergency services; the far larger part was its acquisition of ambulance companies. It may be surprising to learn that ambulances were once free, overwhelmingly provided by the government—especially for younger people who h…

—p.180 Privatizing the Public Sector: Private Equity in Local Government (175) by Brendan Ballou
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America’s water challenges

The situation was even worse in Bayonne, New Jersey, which had taken a similar deal with KKR and its operating partner a few years before. In announcing the agreement, the parties made big promises. A law firm hired by the water authority estimated that the city could save over $35 million over for…

—p.177 Privatizing the Public Sector: Private Equity in Local Government (175) by Brendan Ballou
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Access Freedom debit card

Finally, as part of their rollup, private equity firms are expanding their carceral reach beyond prison itself and into prison release cards. These are debit cards that facilities give inmates when leaving jail or prison, in theory holding the money that the inmates brought with them, that they mad…

—p.151 Captive Audience: Private Equity in Prisons (135) by Brendan Ballou