Private equity snaps up disability services, challenging regulators

Private equity is a massive juicer that’ll try and squeeze money out of anything, destroying all the inherent value in the process.

and pumping up costs

Increasing costs solely for the sake of increasing profits that is.

An increasing monetary base ensures this. It's simple economics and baked into most monetary policy around the globe.

If you take issue with increasing prices, monetary inflation (printing money) is the root cause.

I think we're talking about cashing out a company by prioritizing short term returns over long term survival (including insulting your customers, degrading the brand, committing borderline fraud, etc) . that's pretty orthogonal to broad structural inflation.