Oh FFS (flying fish sticks).
Is there any industry private equity *hasn't* ruined yet?
“'A large number of these funds are seeing veterinary medicine as a good profit center,' said Dr. Jacobson, an Iowa veterinarian who serves on the board of the IVPA. He said he’s seen corporate-owned chains in his region drive up prices for consumers, suppress market competition and skirt state laws that ostensibly prohibit veterinary practices from being owned by non-veterinarians."
https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/vets-fret-private-equity-snaps-clinics-pet-care-companies
If you're referring to the surge in global debt servicing, SEZs, and related exploitation, no, the impact of PE and PC didn't emerge in a vacuum. (Does anything?)
Banks lending with rigid austerity and trade requirements create political cultures far more amenable to private-public relationships that seem easier... right until a state needs to renegotiate terms and finds an immovable object in these purely profit seekers.
It's one predatory system after another. No argument there.