Ed Markey: “We never try to forget that medicine is for the people... it is not for the profits.”

Over the past two years, my office has been working closely with the family of Robert Gilman – a Massachusetts resident and former Marine who has been wrongfully detained in Russia on questionable charges for 1,666 days.

This dangerous deal is the starting gun for a Middle East nuclear arms race.

I will not give a nickel to an authoritarian who is handing over our government to billionaire and corporate interests that have raised the cost of living so high that human rights become commodities that working families cannot afford.

I will continue fighting for my Health Over Wealth Act and to get private equity out of health care.