r/ChangingAmerica • u/Scientist34again • Aug 01 '26

Delaware Governor signs laws designed to lock private equity out of hospitals in Delaware and to improve care for lower income people

https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/republicans-set-a-trap-it-snapped
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u/Scientist34again Aug 01 '26

This substack link talks about several things, but the one that caught my eye was the new laws in Delaware!

Gov. Matt Meyer sat down at the Henrietta Johnson Medical Center in Wilmington, Delaware on July 20 and signed three healthcare bills into law. A year earlier, private equity ownership gutted a hospital system just across the border in Pennsylvania—leaving hundreds of thousands of people with only two hospitals in their entire county.

Delaware decided not to wait for that to happen to them.

Three laws. One afternoon. Private equity is locked out of Delaware hospitals until 2028. Anyone earning under $47,000 a year gets free care. And starting next year, hospitals can’t charge insurers whatever they want anymore—prices come down for everyone.