{"id":469631,"date":"2026-02-10T02:10:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/469631\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T02:10:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:10:18","slug":"from-buyout-darling-to-unviable-basket-case-the-healthscope-fall-from-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/469631\/","title":{"rendered":"From buyout darling to unviable basket case, the Healthscope fall from grace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Healthscope has gone from a public and private capital markets drawcard to unviable as a tax-paying business in only a few years \u2013 can you believe it?<\/p>\n<p>Receiver McGrathNicol, working on behalf of hedge funds and banks, couldn\u2019t sell it. After 10 months, they couldn\u2019t find one credible buyer in the whole world \u2013 not a private equity firm, nor any other opportunist \u2013 to step up and swallow a business that was exceptional enough to be bought twice and floated once (a big float) in only the past 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Healthscope has gone from a public and private capital markets drawcard to unviable as a tax-paying business in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,137,500],"class_list":{"0":"post-469631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}