We need a health care system for everyone, supported by Medicare for all and the Green New Deal.
It is long past time to make sure patient health comes before shareholder wealth in Massachusetts and across our Country.
We should forbid the typical private equity approach of loading health care organizations with debt, extracting capital, and leaving strippe...
They are going to charge everybody who comes in the door more, which means either the taxpayers, the insurance companies, or private individ...
Right. So going in, they would want you to think that if anything went wrong, it was because of benign neglect.
Can we really have accountability of corporate greed without greater transparency in this one sector, the health care sector, that affects e...
When private equity gets hold of health care providers, it is literally a matter of life and death.
I will say it bluntly, turning private equity loose in our health care system kills people.
Failure is not an option. We have to fix the system.
If that courage were available--and I think you see it in this room in Senator Markey and Senator Warren--then we know at least where to beg...
We need accountability here, and law enforcement authorities should carefully review every aspect of this fiasco.
I think if it were beneficial for the hospitals or beneficial for the people of the Commonwealth, we would hear about all of those elements.
Failure to appear is cowardice.
It is insufficient to simply replace one for-profit company with another, like Steward or Optum, without assurances.
When you remove a facility from a community, they no longer will maintain that ability to live prosperous lives.
The blame for this crisis falls squarely on the private equity firm that bought the hospitals and stripped their assets.
