Private equity firms have become major players in the healthcare industry. How has this happened and what are the results? What is private equity's ‘value proposition' to the industry and to the American people -- at a time when healthcare is under constant pressure to cut costs and prices?...

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- About the Authors -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Private Equity: Investors as Managers -- Chapter 2. Institutional Change and the Emergence of Private Equity -- Chapter 3. The Business Model: How Private Equity Makes Money -- Chapter 4. The...