Senator Murphy on Prospect Medical in Connecticut

Senator Chris Murphy on Thursday spoke at a U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing, “Examining the Bankruptcy of Steward Health Care: How Management Decisions Have Impacted Patient Care.” Murphy highlighted a similar case in Connecticut, explaining how Prospect Medical Holdings bought Rockville General, Manchester Memorial, and Waterbury Hospital and have since run them into the ground. In his questions to Ellen MacInnis, a nurse at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Boston, Murphy argued that the corporate greed of private equity firms has subverted the purpose of healthcare by gutting services to line the pockets of billionaires.