{"id":749834,"date":"2026-06-21T00:43:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T00:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/749834\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T00:43:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T00:43:10","slug":"opinion-vermonts-crackdown-on-private-equity-wont-make-health-care-cheaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/749834\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Vermont&#8217;s crackdown on private equity won&#8217;t make health care cheaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"JZZI37K4RBHLDLBWLLB2JFSULI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Vermont is regulating a largely hypothetical problem in a way that could make health care worse. <\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"OZPNVMV6JBAITMZM7L7OP6OJTM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Gov. Phil Scott (R) just signed <a href=\"https:\/\/legislature.vermont.gov\/Documents\/2026\/Docs\/BILLS\/H-0583\/H-0583%20As%20Passed%20by%20Both%20House%20and%20Senate%20Unofficial.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a bill designed to dissuade<\/a> private equity firms and hedge funds from investing in medical practices and health facilities by limiting their control over key business decisions, such as pricing, staffing and equipment purchases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vermont is regulating a largely hypothetical problem in a way that could make health care worse. Gov. Phil&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,137,500],"class_list":["post-749834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749834","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=749834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}