Thank you, Senator Markey, for giving us a powerful tool for the job.

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

We need to hold these executives accountable. We need to rein in private equity's influence over the health care system.

Thank you especially to my colleague and partner, Senator Warren, for all of her work on these issues.

Failure is not an option. We have to fix the system.

I will say it bluntly, turning private equity loose in our health care system kills people.

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

Thank you for joining us today for the hearing, When Health Care Becomes Wealth Care, How Corporate Greed Puts Patient Care and Providers At Risk.

I think--what we have got on our hands right now is something that is only going to grow as the years go by.

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

Yes. And I think that no resounds throughout the room in terms of this balance of power at the corporate boards.

We need to keep the doors open. We need to protect workers. And we need to provide quality care for our communities.

We need accountability here, and law enforcement authorities should carefully review every aspect of this fiasco.

Thank you. And, Dr. Stinson, could you expand on how these for profit hospitals interfere in-- operationally with the delivery of equity and justice, especially for Black and Brown and immigrant communities that are most in need of health…

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

I think--what we have got on our hands right now is something that is only going to grow as the years go by.

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.

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.