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 begin to prevent other Steward-like disasters.

Instead of health care experts, you do have wealth care experts.

We have failed to step up and change the law to protect the delivery of health care system in America.

They are going to charge everybody who comes in the door more, which means either the taxpayers, the insurance companies, or private individuals, right?

We need these hospitals, and we need them to be open and functioning, and functioning at a high level.

The corporate practice of medicine puts profits before people.

Failure to appear is cowardice.

It is called the Stop Wall Street Looting Act, and it is the most comprehensive legislation to fundamentally reform the private equity industry.

The potential collapse of Steward Healthcare threatens access to health care for communities all across our Commonwealth.

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.

It clearly would ultimately wind up harming the nonprofit sector that provides the very same services.

Greed thrives in the dark. And turning on the lights will help.

Thank you. And, thanks to everyone who has joined us today.

Right. So going in, they would want you to think that if anything went wrong, it was because of benign neglect.

Thank you, Senator Markey, for stepping up to champion the state-based Universal Health Care Act, SBUHCA.

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.

But it should. And that is really the point here. So, I am also introducing new legislation to change that.

Thank you for inviting me to testify at today's important hearing.