Why such a big emphasis on keeping for-profit health care companies out of Massachusetts?
For-profit health care companies by their very nature are primarily accountable to their stockholders; their success is measured by how big a piece of the insurance dollar they can siphon away from patient care (what they refer to as the “medical loss ratio”) and pass along to their investors. We believe that doctors, nurses, and other health care professionals should be primarily accountable to the sick people we serve, not to managers or shareholders.
