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

It is insufficient to simply replace one for-profit company with another, like Steward or Optum, without assurances.

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

The Stop Wall Street Looting Act's joint liability provisions would create actual accountability for that kind of corporate profiteering.

It is insufficient to simply replace one for-profit company with another, like Steward or Optum, without assurances.

Throughout your career, you have worked to make government serve the common good.

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.

They kept the State of Massachusetts in the dark. They refused to provide the information necessary for the state to be able to make a determination as to the financial condition of Steward.

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

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

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

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

Together, we will guarantee every American a health care system, not a wealth care system.

A broken health care promise could cause communities their lives and livelihoods.

Thank you so much for your--thank you so much for your testimony.

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.

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.