"We need accountability here, and law enforcement authorities should carefully review every aspect of this fiasco."
"If we close our doors, there is nowhere for people to go, nowhere."
"We need to keep the doors open. We need to protect workers. And we need to provide quality care for our communities."
"A broken health care promise could cause communities their lives and livelihoods."
"The Stop Wall Street Looting Act's joint liability provisions would create actual accountability for that kind of corporate profiteering."
"I am announcing a new agenda that provides for stronger oversight of corporate greed."
"We need to hold these executives accountable. We need to rein in private equity's influence over the health care system."
"How do they think they are going to make tens of millions, hundreds of millions of dollars in return on their investment?"
"But it should. And that is really the point here. So, I am also introducing new legislation to change that."
"This is a prime example of the danger of private equity. The private equity firms walk away with hundreds of millions of dollars."
"The sale has been spun as a way out of the financial crisis for Steward's Massachusetts hospitals."
"Thank you so much for your--thank you so much for your testimony."
"We need to put an end to that, and we can."
"Practicing medicine in many PE led places is no longer about patient safety and quality, but about making medical decisions and judgment due to corporate decision-making with profit motives at the exp..."
"Federal and state regulators should think once and think twice, and think three times, before they let another corporate investor suck more money out of the Steward system."
"Thank you for inviting me to testify at today's important hearing."
"An entirely new level of transparency is called for, much as is kind of plated in Senator Markey's Health Not Wealth draft bill."
"Thank you, Senator Markey, for stepping up to champion the state-based Universal Health Care Act, SBUHCA."
