Rick Scott Regurgitates Clinton-Era Talking Points
Rick Scott Regurgitates Clinton-Era Talking Points
Yesterday, NBC broadcasted End of Patient Rights: The Human Consequences of Government Run Healthcare, a 30-minute “documentary” produced by Rick Scott’s Conservatives For Patients Rights. The ad, which felt like a poorly-designed infomercial slated for the witching hour, followed Rick Scott and former CNN producer Gene Randall as they traveled to Great Britain and Canada, interviewing patients, medical professionals, and academics about the deficiencies of single-payer health care.
Scott himself is a poor spokesperson for the consequences of health care rationing. As Lee Fang explains, Scott started the Hospital Corporation of America/Columbia Hospital Corporation, with the goal of doing for hospitals “what McDonald’s has done in the food business.” Through an aggressive strategy of rapid acquisitions and consolidation, Scott turned his business into one of the largest health care companies in the world. But by the time Scott resigned and the company reached a $1.7 billion fraud settlement with the federal government for systematically over-billing Medicare and stealing from taxpayers, HCA/Columbia had become infamous for doing what Scott now so loudly decries: rationing care. (Watch a short video about Scott here.)
Still, in 1993 and 1994, Scott successfully opposed President Clinton’s health reform efforts. Since then, the cost per person of American health care has more than doubled, with an annual growth rate regularly more than twice that of inflation. A growing number of Americans are struggling to afford health insurance, but Rick Scott is using the very same hollow rhetoric to oppose reform now, as he did then. ThinkProgress has compiled this video. Watch it:
Certain nefarious Democrats — we won’t tell you who — want to import British and Canadian health care into the United States, the infomercial argued. Should they succeed, Americans will lose access to their doctors and spend years on a government list, awaiting surgery.
But despite the “journalistic feel” and clear messaging, Rick Scott is no Billy Mays. For no matter how loud his message was, his point was still unconvincing. The documentary conflated deficiencies of the foreign health care systems with American reform efforts but failed to cite a single Democrat who advocates copy-and-pasting the British or Canadian examples; Scott didn’t explain which Democratic proposals would lead to rationed care or engage in the substance of the President’s principles. He presented the Democrats’ reforms not as they are, but as conservatives wish for them to be.
Cross-posted on the Wonk Room.
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Shorter Rick Scott: Money before life – profit before Americans.
June 1st, 2009 at 5:10 pmAmericans need to be more vocal on this or the same thing will happen.
Thank you TP for keeping up the good work in reavealing this mans evil actions.
June 1st, 2009 at 5:11 pmI’m working on a post about health policy reform right now. Mr. Scott will get repeated critical mention. He is so full of sh**.
http://bgladd.blogspot.com/2009/05/us-health-care-policy-morass.html
June 1st, 2009 at 5:11 pmcongress.org
June 1st, 2009 at 5:12 pm…systematically over-billing Medicare and stealing from taxpayers…
Another Republican hero.
June 1st, 2009 at 5:12 pmIt’s a proven tactic, just make stuff up, cite unnamed sources and use it to justify your position.
It always works, because the mainstream media is too concerned with being ‘balanced’ to be bothered with little things like facts….
June 1st, 2009 at 5:12 pmScott started the Hospital Corporation of America/Columbia Hospital Corporation, with the goal of doing for hospitals “what McDonald’s has done in the food business.”
Congrats , moron ; it appears you’ve “succeeded” ………
June 1st, 2009 at 5:14 pmthe main stream media (owned by 5 heavily republican corporations) is too lazy to investigate
they think their job is to put one guy on to tell me it’s sunny and one guy on to tell me it’s raining, when, if they were doing their job, they’d go outside and come back and tell me which one is lying
June 1st, 2009 at 5:14 pmWe need single payor and Rick Scott should pay for it.
June 1st, 2009 at 5:15 pmThere is only one reason to so vehemently defend the current for-profit health care system, and that is that you are making a huge profit from it. And making huge profits off the sick and dying should never be seen as honorable.
June 1st, 2009 at 5:16 pmYou have to post one first, if you have the nerve. Ricky certainly hasn’t made a legitimate case yet.
June 1st, 2009 at 5:25 pmFunny how we did just that
June 1st, 2009 at 5:26 pmFcuk the Republic Fascist Party
June 1st, 2009 at 5:29 pmConservatives For Patients Rights.
Yet another Orwellian name.
Conservatives are seldom for anyone’s rights, whether Human Rights (see Guantanamo), Civil Rights (ask Clarence Thomas), or reproductive rights (ask Tiller’s murderer).
The only right they defend is their right to tell others how to live, how many children to have, and how to conceive them.
June 1st, 2009 at 5:37 pmAmerica is 37th in the world, behind Slovinia, for providing quality public healthcare ….great news, huh?!
Freemarket=if you have money, you have choices…you have no money, use the emergency room….how christian of these people like rick scott.
Seems to me JESUS was a socialist…
Helped the poor, fed the masses, gave health care to lazurus..stopped the stoning of a prostitute…on and on and on. The only time the bible states JESUS got upset, was with the money changers..
These sphincters, like rick scott, need a lesson on Christianity, that they (the right) pretend that they alone own…
JESUS would more than likely be described on O’reilly’s show as a far left loon, and would meet the same fate as Dr. Tiller did yesterday..
the free market is a terminal cancer.
June 1st, 2009 at 5:37 pmMilton Friedman was wrong.
chicken and waffles Says:
Funny how you are so stupid all you can post is inane nonsense. What a punkass troll you are.
June 1st, 2009 at 5:43 pmNerdad can’t even set a table, much less an agenda
but it is fun to ridicule his stupidity
June 1st, 2009 at 5:47 pmNerdad, you are a shining example of what the right has to offer America today.
June 1st, 2009 at 5:49 pmOkay, I give Trajan, what is honerable? Do you mean he has been honing his propaganda?
June 1st, 2009 at 5:50 pmGovernment control…very bad. Just look how bad things got screwed up in the last 8 years.
June 1st, 2009 at 5:51 pmIs chicken and waffels and merdaddy the same person?
June 1st, 2009 at 5:51 pmI’m still wondering why any troll would choose a Spanish sounding word most closely related to their word for sh*t.
June 1st, 2009 at 5:52 pmI’m afraid that you aren’t nearly as capable as your delusion has convinced you that you are…….set the pipe down dude.
June 1st, 2009 at 5:52 pmGood Lord. Scott wants doctors to be Ronald McDonald clowns. Drive thru healthcare. And you dont get it your way.
June 1st, 2009 at 5:52 pmMr P and Trajan the same old clowns
June 1st, 2009 at 5:53 pmmerdaddy, who did you serve with, and the cub scouts don’t count.
June 1st, 2009 at 5:53 pmMerdad – You have yet to post one single coherent sentence, your grammar is second grade level, your don’t even know how to spell the simplest of words, and you think we care what the hell you post?
We are just laughing our butts off at just what a complete moron you are.
Keep posting though, we need a laugh….as well as an example how stupid conservatives can be.
Is your trailer painted pink or camo?
June 1st, 2009 at 5:56 pmMerdad, why are you talking about bamsters dong?
I knew he was a gay self-hater.
June 1st, 2009 at 5:57 pmWayne Ant Schneider Says:
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There is only one reason to so vehemently defend the current for-profit health care system, and that is that you are making a huge profit from it. And making
huge profits off the sick and dying should never be seen as honorable.
And these are the same conservatives who are supposed to be christians with morals and who are pro-life!? Their hypocrisy makes me sick. Rick Scott is just too greedy for his own good.
June 1st, 2009 at 5:58 pmRick Scott wants you to go to McDonalds for healthcare…I am very afraid thats where Mythdad works.
June 1st, 2009 at 5:59 pmStill afraid of the Snachez thread… Pussies…
June 1st, 2009 at 5:59 pmNerdad, your mother said last night she wasn’t allowing you near the computer anymore..
June 1st, 2009 at 6:00 pmmerdaddy, I served with the 2nd of the 27th 25th infantry division 66-69. And who were you with again?
June 1st, 2009 at 6:00 pmSo Merdad:
June 1st, 2009 at 6:01 pmFor real what is your purpose. Is it safe to assume you really are just a spoiled child?
Merdad: “I am serving my country ever day — welcome to McDonalds, may I take your order?”–”Would you like a hot American apple pie with that?”– “Thank you and come back soon!”
June 1st, 2009 at 6:01 pmGregor Samsa Says:
The only right they defend is their right to tell others how to live, how many children to have, and how to conceive them.
Yes indeed – the hypocritical conservatives don’t want “big government” but act like “big government” when it comes to thier control freak issues – trying to run everyon else’s lives!
June 1st, 2009 at 6:02 pmAww, I’ll take that in a good way. By the way your rant on the government choosing our doctors…….better than an insurance company as far as I’m concerned. Maybe they will treat your delusions after the government takes it over.
June 1st, 2009 at 6:02 pmStick to my asswipe. What is your purpose. Disruption and attention…
Do you show your friends this crap and thing you are cool? It is mind boggling how much of a tool you are. You have teen with daddy’s cb written all over you…
June 1st, 2009 at 6:02 pmStill waiting merdaddy, who did you serve with again? I didn’t catch it the first time.
June 1st, 2009 at 6:03 pmAmen, Gregor Samsa.
June 1st, 2009 at 6:03 pmNerdad, keep showing the people that read but don’t post just how ignorant and cowardly a typical right winger is.
June 1st, 2009 at 6:04 pmWe need an educated electors..
June 1st, 2009 at 6:04 pm— Since that way. Your too absurd to even be taken slightly serious. I will announce though that you have out lamed neoparody and are now the least plausible of all time. You suck the best at being a bad parody. Congratulations…
Come on merdaddy, you can tell us who you served with, be a man and tell us.
June 1st, 2009 at 6:06 pmOkay, this Rick Scott guy, is fighting for patients rights by making healthcare like McDonalds….
Why does he hate Americans so much he wants their healthcare to be like McDonalds?
June 1st, 2009 at 6:06 pmSo explain to me again why you can’t handle the Sanchez thread?
June 1st, 2009 at 6:06 pmMerdad Says:
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u see realpatriot-myou cannot address my brilliant comments, and you just attacked me. stick to my commen
Merdad,
Whatever drugs you’re on(PCP, meth, crack)give them up! Quit huffing that glue. You need to get help today!
June 1st, 2009 at 6:06 pmAnd we don’t have waiting lists now? In the past several years, I have had to make appointments with specialists and it took a month in one case, and close to two months in the other. I am lucky to have what passes for very good commercial insurance and the ability to pay. I live in a large enough metropolitan area where there are multiple doctors that specialize in the area I needed.
While nether case was life threatening, I was in pain and my mobility suffered until I could get treated. But I guess that doesn’t count as a “waiting list” for the “for-profit” crowd.
June 1st, 2009 at 6:06 pmWow, Merdad just went and called GOD a dummy.
June 1st, 2009 at 6:07 pmScott wants people to wait in line, to get bad service, to have hot coffee dumped in their laps.
June 1st, 2009 at 6:08 pmNerdad is just mad because his mother aborted him
twice
June 1st, 2009 at 6:08 pmmerdaddy, I knew you were a phony peice of shit. Any Vet can rattle off his service number and unit he served with at the drop of a hat. Your just a another phony person who said he severed while he cowered under his bed.
June 1st, 2009 at 6:09 pmlooser than what?
June 1st, 2009 at 6:09 pmTime to ban trajan again, ie merdad. Let’s see how long it takes us to come back with a new moniker.
flagged for being a flagulator.(sp)
June 1st, 2009 at 6:09 pmbut fred, then we’d just be a bunch of flaggots
/snark
June 1st, 2009 at 6:11 pmNerdad is an example of why we should let people like Terri Shivo go.
June 1st, 2009 at 6:11 pmFred, I’ve been flagging this tool for two days. I guess TP doesn’t have site monitors anymore.
June 1st, 2009 at 6:11 pmmerdaddy, f**k your info. Answer the question I asked. Who did you serve with? I told you who I was with and when, don’t you have the balls to tell us who you were with, or why you didn’t serve.
June 1st, 2009 at 6:14 pmWell at least our parody troll recognizes the laid-back atmosphere at TP.
… that IS what he means when he calls us “LOOSER”, isn’t it?
June 1st, 2009 at 6:15 pmMerdad will be gone soon enough only to return as an equally idiotic social misfit seeking negative attention to fill the hollow spot that arises from the social alienation Merdad feels. Merdad’s struggles in the real world and failure to gain personal success and social acceptance cause Merdad to reach out in abnormal ways in the abstract world of electronic communities. It is admittedly sad but not that uncommon for those who struggle as Merdad does…
June 1st, 2009 at 6:15 pmIt’s more like this:
“I servis my Amerca ever day…welcom to MacDonnas you miserabl ass lib, tell me you want chicken and nuggets and snob french fry? You like the coke drink and you fat like a pie apple with this order meal? You pay me now—Merdad”
June 1st, 2009 at 6:16 pmCome on merdaddy, you red white and blue tool. You tell us how much you love this country, when did you serve this country and with who?
June 1st, 2009 at 6:17 pmwell dbadass, he COULD stop eating his boogers when he’s out among his classmates
June 1st, 2009 at 6:17 pmThat Trajan sure listens to Chavez and Castro alot….when I never have…
I see, Trajan is the one Limbaugh went to ‘visit’ in Cuba with his viagra bottle.
June 1st, 2009 at 6:18 pmangels81 – Nerdad services the local wine-os.
He has got to be the stupidest troll we have ever had, I truly can not believe his poor grammar and sentence structures, my daughter at 5 could do better…
…oh, wait, that’s it…it’s a 4 year old…sorta like a million monkeys banging at the keyboard.
June 1st, 2009 at 6:18 pmAngels,
June 1st, 2009 at 6:19 pmgive up on this asshat … his mother did, and this is the result.
or, in Nerdad’s case, just the one
June 1st, 2009 at 6:19 pmPastcaring Said:
Heh
June 1st, 2009 at 6:20 pmAnd still couldn’t get the job done…not with the kind of non-health-care system Scott wants us to keep…
:|
June 1st, 2009 at 6:21 pmHey wonder orthopteran.
When need to put some combined thought into this one. I am a little pressed for time but if you wanna put together a preliminary profile, I’d be happy to sit down an critique it with you. Other than the clearly fraudulent part I think it might serve as a nice case study for future students of this field of study….
best-
June 1st, 2009 at 6:21 pmYou have a dog named info?
June 1st, 2009 at 6:22 pmOh I forgot to mention Columbians are pussies as well…
June 1st, 2009 at 6:22 pmhe gets words backwards sometimes
he meant: he’s working on his staff
June 1st, 2009 at 6:23 pmShaking the Devil off?
June 1st, 2009 at 6:28 pmGovernment already subsidizes health insurance—over 60%. It’s such a simple concept really. The GOP has an advantage in its ability to repeat the same lie endlessly. Intelligent people don’t like to repeat themselves.
June 1st, 2009 at 6:39 pmWell, most Americans can see that Rick Scott is a stinking lying sack of crap.
The problem is not nearly so much sleazy cheap sell-out sh*ts like him but the DEMOCRATS in CONGRESS. Like Baucus, and probably Schumer. (I don’t mention the repugnicans merely because they clearly are plutocratic jackanapes).
Congress represents the Corporatocracy. It will take a MASSIVE movement and outrage directed against these creeps to get them to SAVE OUR LIVES from the vicious, insane and economically genocidal power of insurance and pharmaceutical companies.
HR 676!!
June 1st, 2009 at 6:51 pmMerdad? Let’s go loser fraud…
June 1st, 2009 at 6:58 pmI have a friend in Australia who got into an accident and required surgery. His surgery was covered and he even got paid time off to recover.
The Aussies I know think it’s ridiculous that we don’t have a national health care system. We’re supposed to be the greatest nation in the world but we can’t keep our citizens healthy.
I’m a disabled vet and I can only get my pain meds covered from the military. My current insurance doesn’t want to pay for my physical therapy. I served my country, I never thought I would encounter these problems.
I truly hope Congress can get this through already.
June 1st, 2009 at 7:00 pmHi John Wayne…
June 1st, 2009 at 7:07 pmFrom the article:
As long as criminal bastards like Scott never see prison for his crimes against our entire society (robbing the government is robbing everyone!!!), but, are also afforded a voice in the MSM then we are SCREWED!!!!!
SOMEBODY STOP THE CORPORATE, FACIST, ROBBERY OF THIS NATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 1st, 2009 at 7:52 pmangels81 Says:
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merdaddy, I served with the 2nd of the 27th 25th infantry division 66-69. And who were you with again?
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You spent three years with the second wolfhounds? Most rotations were twelve months. I was in Cu Chi ‘67-’68.
On Iraq and 9/11: ‘That’s not something I made up’
Former Vice President Dick Cheney is usually very careful at choosing his words.
Perhaps not so today. In a speech Monday at the National Press Club, continuing along familiar themes of terrorism, Guantanamo and his hatred for The New York Times, Cheney spoke defensively of the administration’s practice of water-boarding detainees.
“I don’t believe we tortured,” Cheney remarked, noting that the interrogation techniques approved by the Bush administration were vetted by White House lawyers. They didn’t cross a “red line,” he said.
And then he delivered the whopper: “There were three people who were water-boarded…. It was well-done.”
http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/06/01/waterboarding-was-well-done/
June 1st, 2009 at 8:00 pmNote that Rick Scott used pay for performance to make health care more efficient. His bonus schemes caused widespread fraudulent billing. His company paid over $1.7 billion in fines. Scott was never charged with a crime, like most white collar criminals.
President Obama wants pay for performance to make health care more efficient. I bet it works out similarly.
June 1st, 2009 at 8:08 pmchicken and waffles Says:
No you are a stupid punkass troll chanelling Bozo the Clown. I do love to laugh at people as stupid as you
June 1st, 2009 at 10:36 pmRick Scott’s 527 political organization is tax exempt and will stay that way. Meanwhile nonprofit community hospitals face taxation and employer provided health insurance is distorting. What’s wrong with this picture?
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June 2nd, 2009 at 12:55 amFunny. I spent two years in NORAD watching the Western hemisphere, and two years on a radar scope in Northern Germany doing what I’d tell a civilian is like air traffic control for NATO training pilots and the words “protecting the sky” were never spoken, written, or thought. “Protecting the sky” would be environmental work.
WORD UP! FAT, GREASY TEENAGERS ON SUMMER BREAK—spend less time posting here, more time doing research for your lies to make yourself at least a little bit entertaining. If you write anything remotely realistic about the experience in the world you haven’t had, write it up and I’ll give you a recommend.
You’re talking to adults here.
June 2nd, 2009 at 5:11 am“Merdad?” I think he, she, or it is trying to say, “Mierda”.
June 2nd, 2009 at 1:33 pmI have been a Medicare/Medicaid recipient for 10 years, and not once have I been turned away for service from any doctor or hospital. On the contrary, doctors and hospitals welcome me because they know they are guaranteed to receive their due payments from the most cost-effective and efficient government program there is. The only problem with Medicare is when thieves like Rick Scott attempt to game the system and defraud Medicare by inflating payments and other shenanigans.
June 2nd, 2009 at 1:59 pmHey Kevin. I just saw the YouTube video about web 3.0 and I have had this idea about our future economy.
June 6th, 2009 at 5:06 amIt’s a bit in tune with the Zeitgeist film. See, if all of our knowledge was shared, we couldn’t make money of it. Siki?
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I’m a musician and I kinda have the feeling that in the future people will pay for live performances, because we have computer software that is very close to sounding like a musical instrument, with a modelled human touch. So, if a person that has never played the guitar, can click a button and sound like Jimi Hendrix, than what is the coolness about all this digital music really? Infact, I think that the more advanced this gets, the less interesting it becomes. We are still in awe over a youngster that can make the violin cry and we will definately be in even more awe when a person can actually do with their fingers that what we can do in an iPhone application.
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Funny. I spent two years in NORAD watching the Western hemisphere, and two years on a radar scope in Northern Germany doing what I’d tell a civilian is like air traffic control for NATO training pilots and the words “protecting the sky” were never spoken, written, or thought. “Protecting the sky” would be environmental work.
WORD UP! FAT, GREASY TEENAGERS ON SUMMER BREAK—spend less time posting here, more time doing research for your lies to make yourself at least a little bit entertaining. If you write anything remotely realistic about the experience in the world you haven’t had, write it up and I’ll give you a recommend.
Rick Scott Regurgitates Clinton-Era Talking Points
Yesterday, NBC broadcasted End of Patient Rights: The Human Consequences of Government Run Healthcare, a 30-minute “documentary” produced by Rick Scott’s Conservatives For Patients Rights. The ad, which felt like a poorly-designed infomercial slated for the witching hour, followed Rick Scott and former CNN producer Gene Randall as they traveled to Great Britain and Canada, interviewing patients, medical professionals, and academics about the deficiencies of single-payer health care.
Scott himself is a poor spokesperson for the consequences of health care rationing. As Lee Fang explains, Scott started the Hospital Corporation of America/Columbia Hospital Corporation, with the goal of doing for hospitals “what McDonald’s has done in the food business.” Through an aggressive strategy of rapid acquisitions and consolidation, Scott turned his business into one of the largest health care companies in the world. But by the time Scott resigned and the company reached a $1.7 billion fraud settlement with the federal government for systematically over-billing Medicare and stealing from taxpayers, HCA/Columbia had become infamous for doing what Scott now so loudly decries: rationing care. (Watch a short video about Scott here.)
Still, in 1993 and 1994, Scott successfully opposed President Clinton’s health reform efforts. Since then, the cost per person of American health care has more than doubled, with an annual growth rate regularly more than twice that of inflation. A growing number of Americans are struggling to afford health insurance, but Rick Scott is using the very same hollow rhetoric to oppose reform now, as he did then. ThinkProgress has compiled this video. Watch it:
June 7th, 2009 at 4:50 pm