BAN NEW FOR-PROFIT HOSPITALS (S 1526)

By Bob Katzen

Another measure before the Public Health Committee would prohibit any new for-profit acute-care hospitals from being established or licensed in the Bay State.

“I filed legislation to ban for-profit hospitals because of the innumerable harms to public health caused by Steward Health Care,” said sponsor Sen. Jamie Eldridge (D-Marlborough). “The profit motive has no place in a healthcare system that truly serves patients.”

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