WASHINGTON, March 23 -- Sen. Chris Murphy issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Monday released, Aided and Abetted: How the Trump Administration is Helping Private Equity Take Over Health Care (https://www.murphy.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/aided_and_abetted_full_report.pdf). The new report uncovers how the Trump administration mobilized the federal government, through legislation, rulemaking, and relaxed enforcement, to give handouts to one of the most destructive forces in American health care today: private equity. Murphy traces Trump's giveaways to private equity to a corrupt, multimillion-dollar lobbying and donation campaign from the industry to buy influence with the administration and advances seve...