What happens when a hospital is treated less like public infrastructure—and more like an investment?

In Missouri and Pennsylvania, two communities watched essential services disappear, doctors lose the ability to care for patients, and hospitals eventually close—all while financial deals reshaped the institutions people depended on.

Private Profit, Public Price follows surgeon Dr. Joseph Corrado and nurse Peggy Malone through the collapse of two hospitals, and asks a troubling question: When healthcare becomes an investment, who pays the price?