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We need both Houses and an end to Citizen's United to get real reform. Virtually unreachable goal, but keep hope alive!

I guess the executive compensation board was made up of the CEOs cronies. The company filed for bankruptcy back on May 7. This CEO has just left a trail of financial devastation in his wake and he is refusing to respond to a Senate subpoena.

Wonder what other financial mismanagement he’s been up to. I’m wondering how much Medicare and Medicaid fraud they did.

https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/steward-ralph-de-la-torre-senate-committee/3478927/?amp=1

https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/steward-massachusetts-hospital-sales-ceo-refuses-subpoena/726053/

https://www.azfamily.com/video/2024/08/17/steward-health-cares-bankruptcy-spells-trouble-4-arizona-hospitals/

He did exactly what they wanted him to. Why would anyone expect differently? Corporations aren't there to provide benefit to society, they're there to provide benefit to a select few who hold stakes. Medicine is one of the most profitable industries in the U.S. That's why we don't have socialized medicine; we have Obamacare, where all sorts of corporations (and this, their stakeholders) profit.

Also, non-profit status is no guarantee of being run as a benefit to society. It's often where the surplus offspring of the elite land sinecure positions, and/or where the directors and executives are the stakeholders and are rewarded lavishly at everyone else's expense. When I lived in Hawai'i, the two highest paid executives in the state were the president of a non-profit university and the CEO of the biggest non-profit health care provider. Don't know about here yet; haven't been long enough.

If medical care was truly a right, not a privilege, it would be done by the government without profit. It's not. "The business of America is business," and all.