Ed Markey

As a member of the working group to reauthorize this law, I remain committed to this sacred responsibility.

We thank Chairman Markey and Ranking Member Marshall for their brand-new trio of bills that would task Federal agencies with publishing nutrition best practices.

The food an individual eats fundamentally affects his strength, stamina, nervous condition, morale, and mental functioning.

I was able to include language in a bill with the support of Governor John Sununu, Republican of New Hampshire.

We were definitely fed the preventative medicine as children.

Food security played an essential role in the reforms of the New Deal and the Great Society.

As a member of the working group to reauthorize this law, I remain committed to this sacred responsibility.

This is such a great bipartisan issue.

The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement Security will come to order.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Can we really have accountability of corporate greed without greater transparency in this one sector, the health care sector, that affects every family in our Country?

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.

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.