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

We need a health care system for everyone, supported by Medicare for all and the Green New Deal.

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

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

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

Failure to appear is cowardice.

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

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…

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

We should forbid the typical private equity approach of loading health care organizations with debt, extracting capital, and leaving stripped down organizations in bankruptcy or worse.

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