Private equity snaps up disability services, challenging state regulators
When care becomes a business, and that business answers to investors, the people depending on it can suffer the most. Across the country, private equity firms are buying up disability service providers—group homes, day programs, in-home care—and trimming costs in ways that leave vulnerable residents exposed to abuse, neglect, and even death. A new report lays out just how widespread and troubling the pattern has become, raising hard questions about what happens when profit becomes the priority in a system built on public trust and taxpayer dollars. Anna Claire Vollers with Missouri Independent has the full story.
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