House lawmakers from Delaware County are leading efforts to regulate private equity transactions after the closure of Crozer Health last month. Read more
“Bad actors are targeting our healthcare system … for personal gain,” said Rep. Lisa Borowski, D-Delaware County, the bill’s primary sponsor. “Crozer Health is gone — with a healthcare desert in its place — because we didn’t have a law like this on the books.” Read more
Sponsored by Borowski, HB 1460, along with its Senate companion, SB 322, would allow the state attorney general expanded authority to review mergers, acquisitions and other major financial transactions involving health systems. It would also prohibit sale-leaseback agreements by private equity firms. Read more
Governor Josh Shapiro celebrated the bill and said he would sign it if it made it to his desk. Read more
The Pennsylvania House passed legislation today that aims to preserve the public’s access to healthcare by protecting the commonwealth’s healthcare services and facilities from unchecked corporate ownership in the healthcare industry, voting to approve H.B. 1460 sponsored by Rep. Lisa Borowski, D-Delaware. Read more
“If we can’t come together as a legislature to get this protection in place for the people we represent, the message will be clear to Pennsylvanians: ‘Your government does not value your basic needs,’” Borowski said. “This is a measure that provides a commonsense, straightforward solution to an issue with undeniable impact. Crozer Health is gone, with a healthcare desert in its place, because we didn’t have a law like this on the books.” Read more
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They decided endangering the health of children and adults was a good way generate personal wealth. We can’t let this happen again! My legislation would help protect nurses, neighbors and our communities from these private equity firms and the people getting rich off their bad behavior. Read more
“A private equity firm from California came into our commonwealth and decided that endangering the lives of nearly a half million children and adults in our county was a good way to generate personal wealth for a handful of executives and shareholders,” Borowski said ahead of Tuesday’s vote of the House Health Committee. Read more
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Delaware County Representative Lisa Borowski knows housing is a big problem for victims of violence and for years she’s wanted to do more. In the last biennium, Borowski proposed two bills, HB1441 and HB544. Read more
For years, state lawmakers have pushed various iterations of a bill to give Pennsylvania’s attorney general more power to review and intervene when hospitals are sold or merged. These deals can have huge ramifications for communities, creating health care deserts in some cases and powerful monopolies in others. Read more
Local state Rep. Lisa Borowski (D-Newtown Square) wrote the bill, which is aimed at residents of condominiums, cooperatives, and planned communities where homeowners’ associations, also known as HOAs, have banned the traditional practice. Read more
Governor Josh Shapiro is urging the Pennsylvania General Assembly to pass the newly introduced Health System Protection Act, aimed at curbing predatory private equity practices in the state’s health care system. The bill, championed by Senator Tim Kearney and Representative Lisa Borowski, follows the devastating closure of Crozer Health by Prospect Medical Holdings, which left over 3,000 workers without jobs and Delaware County residents without critical care services. Read more
On Wednesday, Sen. Tim Kearney, D-Media, and Rep. Lisa Borowski, D-Newtown Square, announced companion bills in the Senate and House that would equip the attorney general’s office to better protect the interests of patients in its oversight of hospital system mergers and acquisitions. Read more
State Rep. Lisa Borowski and State Sen. Kearney are members of the Delaware County Legislative Delegation. They are backing both private equity bills, House Bill 1460 and Senate Bill 322. Read more
Gov. Shapiro is calling on the General Assembly to pass the Health System Protection Act, introduced by Sen. Tim Kearney and Rep. Lisa Borowski. The Act is designed to protect our health care system — including hospitals, nursing homes and other health care facilities — from private equity bad actors who have pillaged our health care system and caused the shuttering of systems across the Commonwealth, and had negative impacts on care and services at others that remained open. Read more
Shapiro spoke in support of the Health System Protection Act introduced Wednesday by Delaware County state legislators Sen. Tim Kearney and Rep. Lisa Borowski. Read more
“This is one of those pivotal moments for us as lawmakers elected by the people to represent their interests. How we choose to respond to the crisis private equity firms are inflicting on our healthcare system will speak volumes to Pennsylvanians about our courage to do what’s right,” Rep. Borowski said. Read more
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