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

I do not understand how regulators can approve such a deal.

When private equity gets hold of health care providers, it is literally a matter of life and death.

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

How do they think they are going to make tens of millions, hundreds of millions of dollars in return on their investment?

The potential collapse of Steward Healthcare threatens access to health care for communities all across our Commonwealth.

So, Dr. Berwick, is there anything in the deal as reported so far that requires Steward to put that money back into the Massachusetts hospitals?

Private equity should not be allowed to loot one business after another, and I have introduced the most comprehensive bill to overhaul the private equity industry.

A broken health care promise could cause communities their lives and livelihoods.

Administrative cuts have placed significant strain on the agency, and both staff and beneficiaries have been forced to bear the consequences.

Our policy requires employees to inform all applicants and beneficiaries about the availability of SNAP benefits and to assist SSI applicants and beneficiaries who live in SSI only households with filing SNAP applications.