Link to Video.
At one point the lawyer on the tape asks Governor Rick Scott aren't you a corporate lawyer who has practiced corporate hospital law? Rick Scott answers: "I don't know what your definition of corporate hospital law would be." Then he shows Scott his own signature and asks is that your signature? Rick says, after a lengthy pause "It looks like my signature...what is your question?" He comes off dumber than dirt but we all know what a charade that is. This guy is the definition of devious.
What a sorry ass excuse for a person Rick Scott is. Seventy five times he plead the 5th. Who the hell voted for him? You scum are taking down Florida with your vote for this loser.
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From Washington Post's Ezra Klein.
(Don Burk - Associated Press) Florida Gov. Rick Scott is one of the most entertainingly shameless figures in American political life. In the 1990s, Scott headed Columbia/HCA Healthcare, the largest for-profit hospital in America. While Scott was running Columbia/HCA Healthcare, it got involved in a bit — okay, a lot — of fraud. As Forbes reported, the company “increased Medicare billings by exaggerating the seriousness of the illnesses they were treating. It also granted doctors partnerships in company hospitals as a kickback for the doctors referring patients to HCA. In addition, it gave doctors ‘loans’ that were never expected to be paid back, free rent, free office furniture, and free drugs from hospital pharmacies.”
The scale of the fraud was so immense that Columbia/HCA Healthcare ended up paying more than $2 billion (PDF) back to the federal government in the single largest fraud case in history. (The previous record holder? Drexel Burnham.) Scott resigned shortly before the judgment came down.
Today, Scott is enjoying a second act as governor of Florida. And, as Suzy Khimm reports, he doesn’t seem all that chastened. Before running for office, he turned his $62 million stake in Solantic, the urgent-care clinic chain he founded after resigning from Columbia/HCA Healthcare, over to a trust in his wife’s name. Solantic doesn’t take traditional Medicaid, but it does work with the private HMOs that, under a 2005 pilot program, were allowed to contract with Medicaid. And Scott is now pushing a bill that would expand that program across the state making those HMOs — the ones Solantic works with — the norm for Medicaid.
Asked about the apparent conflict of interest, Scott said, “If you look at everything that I want to accomplish in health care in Florida is basically what I’ve believed all my life. I believe in the principle that if you have more competition it will drive down the prices.” And I believe him. But he could have sold his stake in Solantic when he got into government. Since he didn’t, the fact remains that Scott is pushing a policy his family stands to profit from immensely . Which is, for Scott, real progress. In the 1990s, he made his money off single-payer health-care programs by cheating them. Today, he’s making his money off single-payer health-care programs by running them. No matter how you look at it, it’s a step up.
Rick Scott, what a dick!
Aside from a little pocket change, what's the difference between Rick Scott and Lynda Bell?
Lipstick.
There you go again. In one blog you threaten to ban all comments because you are so thin skinned, and in this one, you're hurling the name "scum" at anyone that voted for Rick Scott.
Do as you say, not as you do?
Lighten up, Francis!
I guess you voted for Rick Scott.
This isn't a blog for Scott voters/lovers. And why should I give them voice? There are enough Scott sympathizing blogs out there that dump criticism of Scott, go find one and post nice things about him there. Let me suggest Shark tank.
Scott tried to deep six Fair Districts. What do you say? Should we recall him?
Bob Bennett said this was a "european style election" because the local issues were ignored and it was to send a message to the federal government.
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