Sanders Statement on Eli Lilly’s Decision to Lower the Starter Price of Blockbuster Weight-Loss Drug Zepbound

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“Working with private equity vultures, Steward Health Care CEO Dr. Ralph de la Torre has made hundreds of millions of dollars ripping off patients and health care providers across the country. This outrageous display of corporate greed has resulted in more than 30 Steward hospitals in eight states being forced to declare bankruptcy, putting patients and communities at risk.

This is unacceptable.

Dr. de la Torre will be held accountable for his greed and the damage he has caused the American people and our nation’s health care system. Is it my hope that Dr. de la Torre will do the right thing, change his mind, and join our hearing to provide testimony? Yes. But let me be clear: With or without him, this hearing is going forward. We will expose his fraud, and put his greed on display. I look forward to hearing from patients, medical professionals, and community members whose lives have been upended by Dr. de la Torre and his private equity cronies."

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