"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."
"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' ..."
"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."
"An entirely new level of transparency is called for, much as is kind of plated in Senator Markey's Health Not Wealth draft bill."
"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."
"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."
"To be clear, I would forbid private equity firms from owning or controlling health care delivery."
"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."
"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 commu..."
"Instead of health care experts, you do have wealth care experts."
"Right. So going in, they would want you to think that if anything went wrong, it was because of benign neglect."