WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley issued the following press release:
Oregon's U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley teamed up with his colleagues to introduce the Corporate Crimes Against Health Care Act to root out corporate greed and private equity abuse in the health care system.
"Sick patients should never be used to turn healthy profits. But that's exactly what is happening in Oregon and across the nation as greedy corporate executives turn hospitals, nursing homes, and doctors' offices into profit centers," said Merkley. "We must crack down on private equity, whose greed is destroying our health care system for executives' personal profit, while patients are stuck footing the bill."
Merkley has long warned about the corporate takeover ...