The pressure points inflicted by private equity ownership in health care extend far beyond Steward Health Care, and lawmakers have a long menu of policy reforms they can consider to erect new guardrails in a changing environment.
With a host of Massachusetts hospitals and communities' accessible health care put at risk by Steward Health System's financial mismanagement, state policymakers are starting to assess the threat of profit-driven models in healthcare and how the issue may be legislatively addressed.
BOSTON — If Steward Health Care System closes, it will “have significant impacts on health care costs, health care workforce and overall system capacity,” according to David Seltz, the executive
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