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Senator McConnell’s Dilemma: To Serve Patients or Investors?

When evaluating health care investments it is important to analyze the structure of leading drug and medical equipment companies. A close look indeed reveals a derivative driven system in which private equity and hedge funds increase demand for drug payments by purchasing the rights to the cash flows from key drugs. Patients are indeed unaware that many of the drugs they consume are now owned in part by private equity investors.
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