"We need a health care system for everyone, supported by Medicare for all and the Green New Deal."
"I think--what we have got on our hands right now is something that is only going to grow as the years go by."
"We should forbid the typical private equity approach of loading health care organizations with debt, extracting capital, and leaving stripped down organizations in bankruptcy or worse."
"It is insufficient to simply replace one for-profit company with another, like Steward or Optum, without assurances."
"I commend Senator Warren for her proposed 'Stop Wall Street Looting Act,' which would close many of the loopholes used by the private equity players."
"Thank you. And, thanks to everyone who has joined us today."
"It clearly would ultimately wind up harming the nonprofit sector that provides the very same services."
"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..."
"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."
"Right. So going in, they would want you to think that if anything went wrong, it was because of benign neglect."
"the pursuit of profit ought to have, at most, a very, very limited role to play in navigating our way to the health and health care system we need and can afford, where the patient truly comes first."
"Thank you, Senator Markey, for giving us a powerful tool for the job."
"The corporate practice of medicine puts profits before people."
"Thank you, Senator Markey, for stepping up to champion the state-based Universal Health Care Act, SBUHCA."
"We have failed to step up and change the law to protect the delivery of health care system in America."
"Failure to appear is cowardice."
"Together, we will guarantee every American a health care system, not a wealth care system."
