Senators Ed Markey and Bernie Sanders are calling on federal officials to step in to make sure no patients lose access to care as the Steward Health bankruptcy crisis progresses. “Millions rely on Steward nationwide, and its bankruptcy threatens to send shockwaves across the country,” Markey and Sanders wrote in a letter to Health and … Read more
A chair for Steward Health CEO Ralph de la Torre was notably vacant during the Senate’s hearing on the catastrophic financial mismanagement of the company’s Massachusetts hospitals and growing precarious role of private equity in healthcare Wednesday. Subscribe to continue reading this article. Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Pioneer Newz is an automatic … Read more
Steward Health Care’s disastrous financial state wreaking havoc on Massachusetts hospitals and patients will be a key focus in a congressional hearing that U.S. Sen. Ed Markey will be chairing in April, while the health system continues to receive increased scrutiny. Gov. Maura Healey has demanded the Dallas-based system – the largest private for-profit healthcare … Read more
When the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill passed in late 2021, it got a lot of attention for funding electric vehicle charging, high-speed rail, bridge maintenance and a lot of other basic infrastructure needs. What didn’t get much attention was a provision requiring the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to update seat strength requirements in cars. NHTSA … Read more
Any agreement for fighting the negative impacts of a changing climate to emerge from the international summit currently being held in Dubai must include a plan to “phase out” the use of fossil fuels but nevertheless may not, according to the Bay State’s junior U.S. Senator. U.S. Senator Ed Markey, speaking from the COP28 summit … Read more
