Ed Markey

Right. So going in, they would want you to think that if anything went wrong, it was because of benign neglect.

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

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…

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.

To be clear, I would forbid private equity firms from owning or controlling health care delivery.

I commend Senator Warren for her proposed 'Stop Wall Street Looting Act,' which would close many of the loopholes used by the private equity players.

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.

If that courage were available, and 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 and to restore patients' needs to the forefront of our…

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

It is long past time to make sure patient health comes before shareholder wealth in Massachusetts and across our Country.

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

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.

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

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