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Sick Profit: Investigating Private Equity’s Stealthy Takeover of Health Care Across Cities and Specialties

Fred Schulte, Kaiser Health News Two-year-old Zion Gastelum died just days after dentists performed root canals and put crowns on six baby teeth at a clinic affiliated with a private equity firm. His parents sued the Kool Smiles dental clinic in Yuma, Arizona, and its private equity investor, FFL Partners.…

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Deanna Mills, leader of safety-net clinics in the Twin Cities who saw health care as a matter of social justice, dies at 67

The Twin Cities is home to a dozen federally funded clinics that are targeted to help communities with limited access to health care. Deanna Mills ran three of these safety-net health centers during a career that spanned four decades — all so that patients could overcome barriers to staying well…