Private equity and consolidation in healthcare. Physician practices, hospices, dental, vet, and pediatric therapy roll up under private-equity owners; hospitals merge into systems.
Mature Already large; the question is how it resolves, not whether it happens. Largest effect expected 2015–2032.
Second-order effects
Prices rise, access narrows, and the doctor becomes an employee; regulators begin to block deals; the family's every clinician has a fund behind them.
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Frictions it intensifies
These pressures get worse, or reach more people.
Solutions it accelerates
Sectors it reshapes
How to track it
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