The Patriot Ledger To the editor: I have represented Quincy in the Massachusetts House of Representatives for 30 years and was recently elected Speaker. I read Mr. Dennehey’s letter titled “Mariano and Quincy Medical Center” in the Feb. 10 Patriot Ledger and felt compelled to respond. You will not find a bigger champion for community hospitals, and Quincy Medical Center in particular, than me. For years, I pursued policy changes and state funding to help save QMC, including $12 million in state loan forgiveness, to keep the doors open for as long as they were. But the problems facing QMC were deeply structural and its financial distress was too severe.