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What is Congress supposed to do about any of this?
A: Congress has oversight authority over healthcare regulation, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, hospital licensing standards, and a range of federal agencies that touch healthcare delivery.
What we’re working toward is building a documented record — cases, patterns, evidence — that can be placed in front of the right people in the right committees in a form they can actually use. A single complaint letter is easy to ignore. A pattern of documented cases, organized and presented coherently, is harder to dismiss. Although, we are not naive that members of Congress, our own governor and Tennessee General Assembly members get PAC money from the very private equity firm we sued, we still have a voice.
We’re also watching what’s already been introduced. There have been bills and hearings related to PE ownership of healthcare assets in several states. They haven’t gone far. We want to understand why, who’s blocking them, and what would need to be different for that to change, especially in Tennessee where the private equity firm is headquartered.
We document all of this in the Brainstorming group — the research, the strategy, the drafts and available to all members so the thinking is visible and others can contribute.
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