Community | March 25, 2011 | 30 comments

FL Governor’s Premeditated Plan to Bloat His Own Bank Account

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What is the limit on how much money is enough for Rick Scott?

Greed and corruption are not just whims to Scott; apparently it’s his entire lifestyle.
In a State with one of the largest populations of citizens over 65, Republicans and the New Governor are taking painstaking efforts to assure that the elderly and disabled have little to no chance of protecting their health.

Scott obviously knows at this point that he is a one term Governor. Before his term is done, he intends to damage and defund Florida’s social programs at the expense of and its people while further enriching himself and his wealthy friends.

This move to ‘reform’ Medicaid has nothing to do with the budget. Scott and Florida Republicans are currently trying to enact a sweeping Medicaid reform bill that would give HMOs and other private health care companies unprecedented control over the government health care program for the poor.

The bill would also put a hard cap on the amount of money that these managed care companies could spend on Medicaid, which advocates say could particularly harm disabled and elderly patients who require costlier long-term care.
Scott’s new Medicaid reforms will basically force Public employees and people receiving food stamps, welfare or any other social financial aid to visit his Wife’s company (Solantic) for drug testing before they would be considered eligible for these programs or for public employment.

The Florida governor founded Solantic in 2001, only a few years after he resigned as the CEO of hospital giant Columbia/HCA amid a massive Medicare fraud scandal. In January, he transferred his $62 million stake in Solantic to his wife, Ann Scott. The Medicaid bill that Scott is now pushing would expand the pilot privatization program to the entire state of Florida, offering Solantic a huge new business opportunity. It’s difficult to believe the transfer of Solantic before he took office and the push for Medicaid ‘reform’ is a coincidence.

Casting himself as a free-market champion, Scott put his opposition to "Obamacare" at the heart of his campaign. But he could ultimately stand to gain from one of the federal government's biggest entitlements—a program that's also set to expand massively under the Affordable Care Act. Concludes Georgetown's Alker: "It's especially ironic when people who speak out against government involvement in health care turn around and profit from it."

"This is a conflict of interest that raises a serious ethical issue," says Marc Rodwin, a medical ethics professor at Suffolk University Law School in Boston. "The public should be thinking and worrying about this."
Once the damage is done will Florida ever have the funds to reinstate Medicaid back to where it stood before Scott executed his war on the neediest citizens of Florida?

http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/03/rick-scott-florida-medicaid-solantic
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30 comments // FL Governor’s Premeditated Plan to Bloat His Own Bank Account

  • Prijedor
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      Prijedor  

    • I hope this guy fucks floridians up the ass soooo bad, and in the result teach them a lesson about "lets just vote for the other guy" and maybe they will educate them selves better come 2012

    • 1 year ago
  • madammarsh
  • Leen61
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      Leen61  

    • This takes what my guv Scott Walker is doing in WI and turns it up to 10! This is fraud and unethical use of a public office. To profit from using your public office to funnel funds into your own wife's company, is criminal. I would hope legal challenges are in the works. I first heard of this jerk in the movie "SICKO." The Florida voters who put this freak in office with all the baggage he brought with him should have their heads examined....especially the Seniors.

    • 1 year ago
  • FLeggplant
  • Leen61
  • VFORVENDETTA
  • Leen61
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      Leen61  
    • VFORVENDETTA:

      LOL! V, I understand that totally. My husband lived there before we were married and then lived there together a little over a year after we were married in the late 80's. I got quite an education about the "natives" as opposed to the "transplants". My husband and I were of course among the latter since both of us are born and raised Wisconsinites. The redneck Riviera, indeed. It was still like they were still playing out the Civil War 120 years later. The Deliverance theme song always came to my mind when we lived there.

    • 1 year ago
  • BenjaminDover
  • FLeggplant
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  • madammarsh
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  • FLeggplant
  • Angeliron
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  • Progresshiv
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  • kennymotown
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      kennymotown  

    • First of all, what the hell is wrong with the Florida citizens? They elected this crook in the first place even with knowledge of his company's defrauding Medicare!

    • 1 year ago
  • FLeggplant
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      FLeggplant  
    • kennymotown:

      This is what happens when Dems don't get off their asses and spend 30 mins of their day voting.
      Floridians let themselves down and look what we've got, a criminal for Governor
      We have a lot of wanna-be rednecks here who can barely read much less have any idea about politics. They vote Republican because they hate the black man in the White house.

    • 1 year ago
  • kennymotown
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  • chew_chew
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      chew_chew  

    • Well written, FLeggplant.

      Mr Scott should be in jail, along with the rest of the Republican crooks all over the country, trying to get away with this kind of thing.

    • 1 year ago
  • FLeggplant
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      FLeggplant  
    • chew_chew:

      Thanks Chew.
      You are so right,he should be in jail.
      What's really odd is that I have never met anyone who will admit to voting for this freak.
      I know many Republicans and not one is willing to admit to it.
      I really hope those who did vote for this criminal stay under their rocks from now on.

    • 1 year ago
  • Milieu
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      Milieu  

    • Another act of this Criminal POS:

      Abortion distortion. On the campaign trail this year, Scott recounted the story of a lawsuit Columbia/HCA lost in 2003 after one of the chain's hospital acted to save the life of a child born prematurely and with severe birth defects—against the family's wishes. The tale was meant to burnish Scott's pro-life cred and boost his standing with the anti-abortion crowd. But what Scott neglected to mention, as the St. Petersburg Times reported, was the life that child lived after the hospital chose to save her life—a decision her parents opposed:

      Sidney is nearly 20 years old. She can't walk, talk, or eat on her own. She suffers from cerebral palsy, brain damage, seizures, and blindness. She requires constant care at the Miller home in Sealy, Texas, west of Houston.

    • 1 year ago
  • Leen61
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      Leen61  
    • Milieu:

      Nobody has the right to interfere with a parent's choice to abort their birth defected baby. This is the life they DIDN'T want her to have. This is what these pro-lifer's champion. This poor 20 year old woman has no quality of life whatsoever. Her parents just wanted to spare her this suffering. The parents were thinking only of HER life. These pro-lifer's mantra that every life is precious and worth living...they can flush down the toilet!

    • 1 year ago
  • Milieu
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      Milieu  

    • And this surprises anybody>>? I just understand why in the name of ANY God you want to use anybody voted for this criminal.

      "$1.7 Billion. That's how much the federal government fined Columbia/HCA for Medicare and Medicaid fraud that took place under Rick Scott's watch as CEO. That sum, which ultimately led to Scott's ouster, set a record for the largest fine of its kind in history. To this day, he has yet to fully answer for his inability to spot and stop Columbia/HCA's systemic overbilling."

      http://motherjones.com/mojo/2010/11/rick-scott-alex-sink-florida

    • 1 year ago
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