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It does happen to restaurants. Ask Red Lobster.

And to supermarkets - like Morrisons in the UK. And department stores - like Debenhams in the UK.

They join a long list of viable businesses that were/are vampirised by PE for quick returns.

Medicine in the US is just the most perfect platonic example of a PE chokehold on a critical market sector which has drastically negative effects on the rest of the economy, and on individuals who have to deal with it.




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