Private equity is ruining health care

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For the latest news, sign up for our Covid-19 podcast and daily newsletter. Here are today's top stories Private equity investors have been buying up doctor's offices, cutting costs and pressuring physicians in ways that critics say hurt patients. The pandemic could make things even worse. Bloomberg Businessweek reports on how private equity is making a killing as it ruins American health care. Chinese doctors are seeing the coronavirus manifest differently among patients in a second wave of cases, suggesting that the pathogen may be changing and complicating efforts to slow its spread. Millions of Americans getting breaks on their loans are about to hear from their banks. Lenders are preparing to take a closer look at consumers who have arranged to delay roughly $150 billion in payments, potentially pushing some out of the programs. 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