Steward Health Care, the Dallas-based for-profit hospital system operating 31 hospitals across eight states, declared bankruptcy in one of the most colossal failures of a hospital chain in American history. Private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management and former CEO Ralph de la Torre reportedly …
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The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee held a historic hearing bringing together CEOs of major insulin manufacturers (Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk, Sanofi) and executives from the three largest PBMs (CVS Caremark, Express Scripts, OptumRx) to examine soaring insulin prices. …
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On July 30, 2012, the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee released the Harkin Report, a devastating two-year investigation documenting systematic fraud, abuse, and taxpayer exploitation in the for-profit college industry. The 2,000-page report, based on subpoenaed …
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