[astockwell]

Nope. Barriers to entry in the market (securing capital for initial expenditures, rising rents, rising malpractice liabilities) will make providers take positions at the PE-owned practices. Monopolization works in both directions.

[whimsicalism]

As profit increases, those barriers become increasingly more worth it to climb.

Increasing profits does not make start up costs worse.

[willcipriano]

The barriers go up higher as the increased profits are funneled towards the creation of new regulations to prevent competition.

[falcolas]

The disproportionate-to-profit (or income) rise in secondary education costs, however, will. And that rise has the same underlying cause - the search for more money.