Rick Scott, a Blood Clot in the Republican Party

Well well well, the republican party's health care chickens are coming home to roost - again!
(imagine sing songie voice, A-gain!). Here's a tool who caused the GOP blood to run hot at rallies and town halls around the country.

You see, there's this guy, Rick Scott who is doing everything he can to kill the public health care option. This guy started the fake advocacy group Conservatives for Patients' Rights. Rick Scott used this group's bucks to fight Obama's health care plan, to launch the Town HELLS gone wild, to promote the lie that nationalized health care is killing lots of people in Canada and Great Britain. He helped get the Senate Finance Committee to vote down the public option Tuesday, and he was key in killing universal health care during the Clinton years.

Meanwhile, we find out that Scott profits off of uninsured! But worse, ironically so - it is his businesses that may be killing people - people who couldn't get health insurance and were desperate enough to go to one of his craptastic clinics.


Rick Scott profits off the uninsured
Salon

A leading foe of healthcare reform owns a chain of clinics aimed at people who would benefit from a public option

...A linchpin of Scott's 2009 campaign has been the use of anecdotes from abroad -- horror stories from Britain and Canada meant to illustrate how government-controlled healthcare systems "clearly kill people" by controlling their access to care, as he told Fox's Sean Hannity in June. He even funded a documentary titled "Faces of Government Healthcare" cataloging the horror stories of British and Canadian patients who were purportedly denied medical attention for life-threatening illnesses until it was too late.

Yet even as Scott makes the rounds of Congress and talk-show green rooms, a wrongful death lawsuit has been working its way through the Florida courts against a doctor employed by the chain of walk-in clinics Scott founded. Scott has repeatedly bragged that the 27-clinic, Florida-based company, Solantic, is an example of the free-market ingenuity needed to fix our ailing medical infrastructure. The lawsuit, however, alleges a Solantic doctor misdiagnosed a patient's deep-vein thrombosis as a sprained ankle, leading to a pulmonary embolism and death. That same doctor was reprimanded by the state for misdiagnosing deep-vein thrombosis in a patient who died two years earlier. It's the kind of anecdote you'd expect to hear in Scott's documentary -- except that it condemns a free-market system where profit and patient volume may take precedence over care..."

More at the link
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/30/rick_scott_one/

Hat tip to Field, in "Do You Know Who This Man Is?"
over at http://field-negro.blogspot.com/2009/10/do-you-know-who-this-man-is.html