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

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

Private equity should not be allowed to loot one business after another, and I have introduced the most comprehensive bill to overhaul the private equity industry.

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

Fighting against corporate greed is going to be an uphill battle, but it is what Senator Warren, and I are promising you here today.

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

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.

So, Dr. Berwick, is there anything in the deal as reported so far that requires Steward to put that money back into the Massachusetts hospitals?

How do they think they are going to make tens of millions, hundreds of millions of dollars in return on their investment?

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

So, Dr. Berwick, is there anything in the deal as reported so far that requires Steward to put that money back into the Massachusetts hospitals?

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

The Health Over Wealth Act would protect every patient and provider that private equity touches.

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

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

If we close our doors, there is nowhere for people to go, nowhere.

When you remove a facility from a community, they no longer will maintain that ability to live prosperous lives.

We have to protect it against the predators who are looking at this, our health care system as just another way of making themselves more wealthy.