CNN’s Rick Sanchez leaves Rick Scott fumbling to justify his health care corruption.
CNN’s Rick Sanchez leaves Rick Scott fumbling to justify his health care corruption.
CNN’s Rick Sanchez ripped into Conservatives for Patients’ Rights founder Rick Scott today over his anti-health care reform advocacy efforts. Sanchez pointed out that Hospital Corporation of America/Columbia Hospital Corporation, which Scott founded, was charged with defrauding the government for more than a decade and had to pay the government a record $1.7 billion. “Some would argue, and it would be hard to say they’re wrong,” said Sanchez, “that you would be the poster child for everything that’s wrong with the greed that has hurt our current health care system.” Scott responded by pointing out that other companies also had to pay fines, which Sanchez responded was exactly the reason health care reform was so necessary:
How much more wrong can you be than what you just said? Not only is your company screwed up — and you just admitted to it — and you’re saying, look at all the other companies, they did the same thing! That doesn’t sound to me like a sterling system that we have, does it?
Scott became so desperate to defend himself that he tried to say the fines were paid after he left the company (even though the charges were from while he was there) and insisted, “No one went to jail.” Watch it:
Scott also said that the American public should “love” what his company has done for health care. But Scott didn’t start his hospital business for the sake of improving the quality of care in 1987, but rather wanted to “do for hospitals…what McDonald’s has done in the food business.”
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August 6th, 2009 at 6:18 pm“No one went to jail.” – Rick Scott
Damn skippy! But that is because there are two systems of justice in the US. One for rich people and one for the rest of us. If he stole $100 from a convenience store, he’d be doing a dime up to Chino!
August 6th, 2009 at 6:21 pmHow does one defraud the government of close to $2bb and not do any jail time?
August 6th, 2009 at 6:21 pmThis also happened here in Seattle with Seattle Cancer Care Aliiance. They had to pay $50 million just a few years back for double billing Medicare. Hey, 37th in the world for Healthcare isn’t THAT bad, right?!?
August 6th, 2009 at 6:23 pmThis guys is about as evil as they come.
August 6th, 2009 at 6:24 pmCNN is trying to polish up their image after the Dobbs doodoo, and good for Rick Sanchez for calling out this hypocrit and crook.
But but but everyone does it is not a valid response, and rarely heard from anyone who’s out of high school, you lying pigeyedsackofshit!
This has the same ring of truth as when the GNOP, enablers of doubling the national debt during the Bush years, telling Obama he needs to be fiscally responsible. When called out on it, I believe it was either McConnell or Boehner who tried to spin it as “we’ve learned from our mistakes, you can trust us now.”
The missing follow up question would be “Mr. Scott, how much money did you personally make during your tenure, how much did you walk away with, how much stock were you granted, and how much do you still own?”
PEACE
August 6th, 2009 at 6:24 pm***
way to put him on the canvas rick!
(although he is a tomato can)
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August 6th, 2009 at 6:26 pmBut every one else is doing it !
Oh really you have prof of this Mr scott if so why haven you spoken up.
oh guess it was your turn to be busted.
i seen better and cleaner scrum wads then this guy
Good Job Rick Sanchez!!!!!!!
August 6th, 2009 at 6:27 pm“Everyone is doing it” is hardly a defence, Mr Scott.
Didn’t your mom teach you that?
August 6th, 2009 at 6:28 pmRich H says:
How does one defraud the government of close to $2bb and not do any jail time?
Ah two words Bush’s DOJ well guess one name and a TLA
August 6th, 2009 at 6:30 pmHow did he escape prison time? Ratting on the Others, or did he just bribe everybody?
August 6th, 2009 at 6:31 pmFirst, Rick lays into a shill, and today Chris Matthews called the founder of one of the ‘Grass Roots’ crapfests a ‘Fraud.’ The wheels of this bus are coming off ladies and gentlemen. Finally MSM is calling these ‘Grass Roots’ organizations for what they are, a facade cooked up by Big Business to influence public opinion.
August 6th, 2009 at 6:31 pmHey RICK everyone who is doing it should go to PRISON
August 6th, 2009 at 6:31 pmThere’s more class on the wrong side of a glory-hole than this guy has ever had.
August 6th, 2009 at 6:33 pmpreach on, brother you-have-to-die-because-you-cost-too-much, preach on.
August 6th, 2009 at 6:33 pmWell if ever one is doing it mr scott
then don’t that make a reform that mush more needed!!!!!!????
and shouldn’t you be showing the way seeing you know how`s its done.
August 6th, 2009 at 6:34 pmKeep watching. You’ll get the cue. This is a Magic Bus.
August 6th, 2009 at 6:39 pmoops “Must more needed”
mush omg had a sarah flash back there
August 6th, 2009 at 6:39 pmI guess it’s a difference between Rick Sanchez and other CNN announcers. How could one network have someone like Sanchez and then go to such lengths to defend someone like Lou Dobbs?
August 6th, 2009 at 6:40 pmThat stupid A$$ smile turned into a stupid A$$ smirk real quick.
August 6th, 2009 at 6:43 pmI also noticed that when Rick Sanchez asked Scott about buying up all the hospitals in an area and closing all but one, he asked whether that was really better for patients.
Scott’s answer?
“First we did not do that, and second, it would absolutely be better for patients.”
Number one, that’s the first time I’ve heard one of these “free market” clowns say that less competition is better for patients, and
Number two, if it would be better for patients, then why didn’t he do it?
August 6th, 2009 at 6:44 pm“No one went to jail”! Nixon and Bush didn’t go to jail, either, but that doesn’t make them innocent!
August 6th, 2009 at 6:46 pmThis crook Rick Scott reminds me of a kid defending himself with the “they’re doing it too!” defense. Scott is part of the healthcare mafia and he’s still walking around free! Just UNREAL!
August 6th, 2009 at 6:50 pmScott became so desperate to defend himself that he tried to say the fines were paid after he left the company (even though the charges were from while he was there) and insisted, “No one went to jail.”
And that’s a big part of the problem we have with corporations. Until such time as we start putting these people in jail for the frauds they commit, corporations are always going to get away with their lying, cheating ways. When you factor in how much profit they made off of their fraud, the 1.7 billion fine was probably chump change. It’s kind of like the auto companies not pulling unsafe cars off the market because it will cost them less in lawsuits for dead people than it would to fix the problem in the first place.
The day corporations were given the status of “personhood” in this country is the day we lost any chance at ever being a true democracy that represents the people.
August 6th, 2009 at 6:55 pmAnother smiling Republicanzi agent.
A scoundrel wrapping himself in the flag carrying a Living Lie.
August 6th, 2009 at 6:57 pmSo this is ‘Compassionate Consevatism’ “Rip off everyone. But that’s OK! Because we all do it!” These guys make big bucks and leave average Americans to die because they aren’t making enough. That’s what it boils down too. No wonder why other countries think were nuts. They are watching America, The best country in the world, Let their own people live without Health Care because of greed. No wonder Canadians are pissed. They are tired of the Repugs bashing their Health Care system.
August 6th, 2009 at 6:57 pmBilbo: “When you factor in how much profit they made off of their fraud, the 1.7 billion fine was probably chump change.”
William Maquire, the CEO of another HMO, was given a ONE-YEAR PAYOUT OF $1.3 BILLION. $1.3 billion in compensation for one year’s work.
That might have something to do with the fact that we pay twice as much per person without getting better results.
August 6th, 2009 at 7:00 pmI just love how these guys pick the most oxymoronic names, like
Conservatives for Patient Rights.
OT- Beck just joked about poisoning Pelosi. sheesh!
August 6th, 2009 at 7:00 pmYou don’t see these other countries voting for our healthcare system. We really need to smarten up in this country. Let’s declare a War On Ignorance.
August 6th, 2009 at 7:04 pmMathazar@28, I just read that too. Beck is losing it. Already some sponsers are ditching him because of his infamous “Obama is a racist.” remark. But how long will it be before MSM reports on it? i guess we will have to wait for Keith or Rachel to comment on it.
August 6th, 2009 at 7:04 pmWillWrite4Food says:
“No one went to jail”! Nixon and Bush didn’t go to jail, either, but that doesn’t make them innocent!
Jeff Immelt isn’t going to jail either. He agreed to pay $50m of his shareholders dollars to settle fraudulent accounting charges (to mislead shareholders), without admitting or denying wrongdoing. That’s a pretty sweet deal. Get the people you deceived to pay your fine. Oh, and keep your job, with GE and on Obama’s Economic Recovery Board.
August 6th, 2009 at 7:04 pmBeck is diseased.
August 6th, 2009 at 7:05 pmI just love how these guys pick the most oxymoronic names, like
Conservatives for Patient Rights.
It’s clearly Orwellian. They could have called themselves, Conservative Families for Patient Family Rights for Families.
August 6th, 2009 at 7:07 pmIt would be wonderful if there could be a coordinated event where every single American with private insurance just dumped their coverage. I know that will never happen, but I would love to see every last health un-insurance company go down…
August 6th, 2009 at 7:10 pmI’m glad someone at CNN is working hard to cover the stain of having Lou Dobbs as a co-worker.
August 6th, 2009 at 7:10 pmBTW – the guy in this video is creepy.
Maybe he started out making hospitals better, but he ended up making them more profitable, and forgot about the patients in the process.
the real problem is that he sees no problem.
August 6th, 2009 at 7:12 pmI’m glad someone at CNN is working hard to cover the stain of having Lou Dobbs as a co-worker
really? that’s cool. who?
August 6th, 2009 at 7:14 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
The problem inherent in the private health insurance industry, being controlled by bean counters rather than physicians, is that the people who most desperately need coverage are the people who are least likely to
August 6th, 2009 at 7:29 pma) have their medical treatments be approved for coverage by their HMO, or
b) be accepted into an insurance program.
how much more of their income do those pissed off people want going to receive the 37th-best healthcare in the world, mr. coord???
how does a person who’s on medicaid end up believing that “government healthcare” is a bad thing, unless someone is intentionally misleading them, mr. coord?
when did you start as an intern for Freedomworks, mr. coord??
August 6th, 2009 at 7:29 pmfor-profit health care is immoral. period.
the great advances in medicine are made by people who care about helping people, not by people who secretly dream of having more money than anyone else they ever heard of.
August 6th, 2009 at 7:32 pmThis isn’t the first time that Sanchez has actually done the job of an interviewer.
August 6th, 2009 at 7:32 pmHe used to be the guy in the rain slicker getting blown around in hurricanes and making himself a laughing stock.
But on his own show, he has has some remarkable moments like this one with the HCA creep.
Rich H says: #3
Easy. Find out how many politicians he owns.
August 6th, 2009 at 7:32 pmcoord_xfrm says:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/121664/majority-favors-healthcare-reform-this-year.aspx
Here… for you… there are a majority of American’s who are in favor of Congress passing health care reform- this year. Rick Scott is the poster child for a group who would have you believe that there is a ” real, growing, dissatisfaction in the minds of a growing number of people with the current efforts to expand the role of government in their lives”
So ‘expanding the role of government’ is what tested best, huh?
You’re attempt to distract from the issue is pretty obvious. Pretty stupid, too.
August 6th, 2009 at 7:33 pmOT: But funny to me. My local weather band radio has issued a “Severe Thunderstorm Watch, Number 666.” Hey, you gotta laugh when you can…
August 6th, 2009 at 7:35 pmThat’s right Mr. Scott. Try to justify bad behavior by pointing to other bad behavior. Another fine example of America’s culture of corporate corruption brought to you by your very own United States Government. Your tax dollars at work!
August 6th, 2009 at 7:35 pmWhere’s his wagon and mule? But I guess when you make Billions in the snake oil…..errrr “healthcare” business one no longer needs a wagon and a mule.
August 6th, 2009 at 7:37 pmHe has 200 wagons and 800 mules – they’re all at his 600 acre, 80-million-dollar Florida estate.
August 6th, 2009 at 7:44 pmcoord_xfrm says:
There happens to be a real, growing, dissatisfaction in the minds of a growing number of people with the current efforts to expand the role of government in their lives.
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Really?
Last time I checked, optional does not mean that the feared totalitarian government boogeyman was going to force you to take their health plan. You could keep your private insurance if you so chooosed.
I don’t know what optional means in Wingnutistan, but in the real world it means that you can actually choose not to get it.
Most of these so-called protesters at one town-hall meeting raised their hands when the Congressman asked if they were on Medicare. Apparently these people didn’t object to ‘expansion in the role of government in their lives’ when it comes to that program…
August 6th, 2009 at 7:45 pmBilbo Hussein Baggins says:
The day corporations were given the status of “personhood” in this country is the day we lost any chance at ever being a true democracy that represents the people.
This is the best comment I’ve read in a while – and there are lots of good ones! This designation of corporations as a person is one of the biggest failings of modern society. More should be said about this.
August 6th, 2009 at 7:47 pmThis guy Scott is so reptilian and cold. That’s why it’s so easy for him to lie, cheat and steal then claim to be for Patient’s Rights! Like many conservatives, he probably does it all in the name of Jezus! UNBELIEVABLE!
August 6th, 2009 at 7:57 pmScott is a typical crook in our health care system. This is why no other country on the planet is copying our health care system! It sucks. It’s all about greed and there is no care at all.
August 6th, 2009 at 8:14 pmWhat isn’t optional is the estimated additional 1 trillion dollars in debt over the next 10 years. Of all the times to be enacting trillion dollar debt legislation, I would think that the midst of a recession brought on by the effects of wild-ass spending is probably a pretty “stupid” choice. They have to jump through hoops to come up with an additional $2 billion for more Cash for Clunkers but a $1000 billion is no problem (as long as it can be spread out over a couple future administrations). And by all means – we must hurry this through like the $787 billion “stimulus” (LoL) pseudo-emergency package- before people can see the details of what they are being sold. That’s a sales trick of a con-artist with much to hide.
August 6th, 2009 at 8:18 pmRick Sanchez is one of the best things on CNN — the rest of it is really descending into lobbyist, REpub-fear-mongering garbage.
August 6th, 2009 at 8:20 pmcoord_xfrm says:
How is EVERY OTHER INDUSTRIALIZED NATION IN THE WORLD able to provide universal coverage and do it at a savings compared to our country?
Do you enjoy paying the most for treatment ranked #37 in the world?
What happened to that lauded ‘cost/benefit analysis’ ability of Conservatives, coord?
August 6th, 2009 at 8:22 pmmmmmm – McSurgery…..
what a wonderful man. how could anyone begrudge his 200 wagons and 800 mules??
August 6th, 2009 at 8:22 pmcoord is right – big debts should only be taken on for blowing things up and killing foreigners – you know – the investments that really pay us back.
just look how our investments in Korea and Viet Nam have paid off, for crying out loud!!!
August 6th, 2009 at 8:24 pmcoord_xfrm says:
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1447687&rendertype=table&id=t1
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/46/2/38980580.pdf
Why are our costs so much higher and our results universally worse, coord?
Don’t you think we can do better?
August 6th, 2009 at 8:25 pmhttp://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/05/productivity_map.html
Here’s what happens when we do nothing, coord. You can see why people would be anxious to do better, can’t you?
August 6th, 2009 at 8:28 pmoh no, belaccifer, you moran – don’t you understand?
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August 6th, 2009 at 8:31 pmI moran what I am, tombaker… I just don’t get why people who urge me to ‘read the bill’ seem incapable of reading anything related to this issue… let alone the bill itself.
Could coord tell me what provisions SPECIFICALLY are objectionable in the bill?
August 6th, 2009 at 8:36 pmevery one of the windbaggers i’ve seen honking their pie-hole at a town hall has been a character i’ve seen kristen Wiig portray on SNL.
frumpy disheveled assisted-living dwellers (on Medicaid, and collecting Social Security) who haven’t cracked the cover on anything heavier than The Enquirer since 1980.
such unwitting self-mockery has never been committed by free people. their ancestors are wincing and cringing at this very moment.
August 6th, 2009 at 8:36 pmBTW, tombaker… don’t know if it’s intentional but you were by far the best Dr. Who…
August 6th, 2009 at 8:36 pmNice to see this slime ball squirm for a change.
August 6th, 2009 at 8:37 pmthat seems to be the concensus of Whosters.
it’s my actual name though.
August 6th, 2009 at 8:39 pmYes. Rick Sanchez is resisting becoming a corporate zombie. Kudos. May he be successful!
August 6th, 2009 at 8:40 pmMany years ago, the now defunct SmithKlineBeecham Laboratories were fined heavily by the Government for Medicare fraud. It’s easy for these hospitals and doctors to make false claims. I know a chiropractor who spends 5 or 10 minutes talking to a patient, never treats them, just talks and then charges disability insurance or any other insurance for a 1/2 hour visit.
August 6th, 2009 at 8:49 pm“Everyone is doing it” is a typical Republican response along with “I don’t recall”.
August 6th, 2009 at 8:52 pmOT – Looks like Scott and the rest of these ’special interest’ types are getting what they want.
The police had to be called to a townhall meeting in Tampa!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/06/tampa-town-hall-on-health_n_253478.html
August 6th, 2009 at 9:45 pmWas Scott using Michelle Bachmann’s eyes for that interview?
August 6th, 2009 at 9:50 pmYou know people should be asking themselves if this man is spending all this money to STOP the push to National Health Care and wins in his push WHAT WILL HE BE GETTING FROM THE INSURANCE COMPANIES?
August 6th, 2009 at 10:09 pmThe republiscums use these tactics every time reforms are in the birthing stages – and they stir the less informed amongst us through fear. I remember the last time health insurance and government options was attempted to be placed on the table and these same people shot it down. My dad was convinced that the government would be deciding who lives and who dies. My dad is gone now, but if he were here (a republican raised by democrats) I think he would be for universal health insurance. We pay anyway.
August 6th, 2009 at 11:37 pmcoord_xfrm says:
What isn’t optional is the estimated additional 1 trillion dollars in debt over the next 10 years. Of all the times to be enacting trillion dollar debt legislation, I would think that the midst of a recession brought on by the effects of wild-ass spending is probably a pretty “stupid” choice.
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Please tell me what ‘deficit neutral’ means in Wingnutistan?
To me it means that it neither adds to nor subtracts from the yearly deficit, which means that it cannot add to the national debt.
Or is the CBO one of those liberal totalitarian government agencies I keep hearing about? :\
August 6th, 2009 at 11:58 pmCNN should fire Dobbs and put Sanchez in his place!
August 7th, 2009 at 12:14 amLooks like we got us some astroturf trolls. Prolly gettin’ a quarter a post.
August 7th, 2009 at 12:34 amOT – Looks like Scott and the rest of these ’special interest’ types are getting what they want.
The police had to be called to a townhall meeting in Tampa!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/06/tampa-town-hall-on-health_n_253478.html
Hannity, Beck, Limbaugh, Republican guy, watchpuppy, et al. The blood is on your hands for inciting this violence. Proud of your America hating selves?
August 7th, 2009 at 12:59 amHere’s how it works, Mr. Oh-dearie-me-the-government:
You set up a baseline public option. Then you let the free market compete against it.
The post office. The public library. Public schools. Municipal water service.
All have the virtue of serving everybody, giving basic service. People communicate. They are educated. They drink and maybe even bathe.
NONE of these things have prevented UPS, bookstores, private schools, or Evian from existing and making profits.
ESPECIALLY if the public service is bureaucratized and inefficient.
So what the HELL are you afraid of?
Cut the crap about governmental influence in peoples lives. You know when people call on the government?/
When they’re being robbed and assaulted. Or when their house catches fire.
If the current purveyors of helth insurance were actually providing insurance–that is to say, a service that provides, in return for premiums, security when misfortune strikes–none of this would be necessary. But these under-regulated, oligopolistic monstrosities provide theexact opposite of insurance. If you actually try to use the healthcare system, they will deny your claims, drop your coverage, refuse to insure you, whereupon you find that if you try to work without insurance, procedures cost SIX or SEVEN TIMES what they cost to an insured patient.
This is criminal abuse. If an auto repair shop worked the way Aetna works, they’d be shut down and the owners would be in jail.
I don’t care how much of a libertarian you are–one undeniable function of government is to stop criminal actions. And if you don’t think what’s going on is criminal, you’re not even blind, not even stupid–you’re bought and paid for.
I’m less centrist than Barack Obama–I think these CRIME SYNDICATES should be put out of business and their officers put in a Supermax with the cells welded shut. He wants to give them a chance. I don’t like it.
But OK, let the private industries work like FedEX, like Barnes & Noble, like Exeter and Lawrenceville, like Poland Spring. Let them compete on the basis of superior service, less bureaucracy, better access to advanced procedures, more user-friendliness. Hooray for Capitalism!
But you’re not pumping for capitalism, you’re whining on behalf of your masters.
You’re not Howard Roarks. You’re a bunch of Ellsworth Tooheys.
August 7th, 2009 at 1:49 amcoord_xfrm says:
What isn’t optional is the estimated additional 1 trillion dollars in debt over the next 10 years. Of all the times to be enacting trillion dollar debt legislation, I would think that the midst of a recession brought on by the effects of wild-ass spending is probably a pretty “stupid” choice. They have to jump through hoops to come up with an additional $2 billion for more Cash for Clunkers but a $1000 billion is no problem (as long as it can be spread out over a couple future administrations). And by all means – we must hurry this through like the $787 billion “stimulus” (LoL) pseudo-emergency package- before people can see the details of what they are being sold. That’s a sales trick of a con-artist with much to hide.
Yet war is fine by you…NICE Priorities you got there…
August 7th, 2009 at 2:08 ambelaccifer lacca – Thanks for the links last night. I couldn’t stay any longer. I’ll check out your args this morning.
Have a good one…
August 7th, 2009 at 5:58 amWar? I didn’t say anything about war. I was merely stating the obvious fact that maybe, just maybe, this isn’t necessarily the best time for ram-rodding through trillions of dollars in excess spending like we’ve been doing for the past seven months. If we want healthcare reform then why not deal with some of the issues that need addressing. How about putting the cost burden of unsuccessful frivolous lawsuits on the plaintiff? How about dealing with the cost burden of having to treat illegals? There are a large number of specific issues that can be handled without having to create and fund new government agency (the Health Choices Administration) with the usual trappings of bureaucratic inefficiency, red tape, and burdensome costs. But, of course, solving problems without expanding government’s role in our lives doesn’t seem to be in the Left’s toolbox. Quite the opposite.
And – since you brought it up – I don’t support an excessive defense budget and am not in a huge hurry to start a war somewhere as you stupidly implied.
August 7th, 2009 at 6:35 amWhat? I’m looking at the preliminary analysis of H.R. 3200 pdf from the OMB 7-17-2009 Link:
Table – PRELIMINARY ESTIMATE OF THE EFFECTS ON THE DEFICIT OF H.R. 3200, THE AMERICA’S HEALTH
CHOICES ACT OF 2009
It’s laid out as projected year by year and a summary column for 2010-2019. The column labeled “Effects on the Deficit of
Insurance Coverage Provisions” culminates in a 10 year total impact of 1.042 trillion dollar impact on the deficit.
In the letter of submittal by Charles Rangle for this of this analysis he also states:
He then refers to estimates of planned increased tax revenues at http://www.jct.gov/ (see pub JCX-33-09) where you’ll see that they estimate an increase in tax revenue (mostly income taxes on the those making > $350,000/yr) of $587 dollars.
I’ll be curious by what manner of accounting gymnastics we’ll ever see “deficit neutral”.
August 7th, 2009 at 7:24 ampbeeg – Excellent points!
I’m with you on dealing with the corruption. I’m not convinced this will be a USPS/UPS scenario. For one thing, I’m not sure the competitive relationship would be similar. I’m still wading through the literature and views – like here at this web site. That’s something I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to do if Obama had his way and this thing would’ve been hurried through a vote like they did the “stimulus” and bailouts where no one knew what the hell was being shoved at them.
There’s many other areas that I need to get straight. Mail delivery vs who gets a heart? :-) The efficiency of handling emergency medical services, the overhead and inefficiencies of a huge bureaucracy, the susceptibility to chronic systemic abuses, and many other specifics, make me skeptical that we really NEED, let alone want, to create yet another government agency. But, I’m trying to weigh it out and like I said, I’m with you on the need to deal with corruption. I’m kind of curious why there’s no mention of dealing with such cost burdens as frivolous lawsuits and the projected cost of treating illegals, etc.
August 7th, 2009 at 7:54 amWhy do ordinary Americans believe people like Scott? there is a related post at http://iamsoannoyed.com/?page_id=588
August 7th, 2009 at 8:00 amI love Rick Sanchez. Hes got the best program on CNN in my opinion.
Fareed Zakaria’s GPS too.
August 7th, 2009 at 8:17 amWE NEED TO COUNTER-ORGANIZE!
August 7th, 2009 at 8:42 amWell, OBVIOUSLY we need to roll back all the regulation in the industry so guys this can make all they money they want at the expense of the taxpayers. That would fix EVERYTHING. Hello? McFly?
August 7th, 2009 at 9:04 amThat is correct. Fewer hospitals in your community makes it possible to care for many more sick Americans. Makes sense to me.
“Conservatives for Patients’ Rights” That alone should tell you something.
August 7th, 2009 at 9:35 amThis same principle of smaller number of businesses said to be able to provide service to more customers is found throughout crony, laisse faire capitalism.
This way we don’t have to think as much about which media company’s news shows to watch, which bank is too big to fail, or which of the 5 for-profit health insurance companies that own 80% of the business to pick to screw you over.
Monopolies remove the need to worry about chosing the wrong business.
August 7th, 2009 at 9:39 amSo this is one of the spokesmen for so called conservative health care reform???
Voice opposition to expanding medicare, probably backing the medicaid drug bill giving the opportunity for big pharma to make more money, opposing health care for the uninsured while exploiting and robbing the very organizations he opposes.
Meaning that he ripped off taxpayer money that would have to include the so called misinformed “protesters” at the town hall meetings that this guy probably supports and robbed???
Dang this creep is GOOOOOD!!!!!
August 7th, 2009 at 11:46 amWHO DID RICK SCOTT DEFRAUD, A PRIVATE INSURANCE COMPANY ? NO IT WAS A US GOVERNMENT BUREAUCRACY. IF OUR GOVERNMENT CAN’T MANAGE MEDICARE AND MEDICAID, HOW CAN WE TRUST THEM TO MANAGE THIS EXTREMELY LARGE BUREAUCRACY? IS THIS THE WAY TO CREATE JOBS? THESE JOBS WILL NOT PRODUCE ANY PRODUCTS.THEY WILL SLOW THE CASH FLOW TO DOCTORS AND HOSPITALS.THEY WILL SLOW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT.WHO WILL DEVELOP THE DRUGS TO CURE CANCER OR AIDS?
August 7th, 2009 at 4:23 pmALSO WHY WAS CONGRESS COMPLAINING ABOUT THE POOR CARE GIVEN OUR WOUNDED IN VETERANS HOSPITALS.
COULD RICK SCOTT AND OTHERS HAVE DEFRAUDED A PRIVATE INSURANCE CO. NO, THEY ARE IN BUSINESS TO MAKE A PROFIT. NOT JUST A PAYCHECK.