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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 08:19 AM
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just saw an anti-public option commercial with HCA criminal rick scott
telling Obama to drop the public option and give the people 'real reform'

this from the man who ran Hospital Corporation of America while they defrauded medicare/medicaid

they were fined 1.7 BILLION DOLLARS...THE LARGEST FINE EVER

and now he's on teevee telling President Obama what to do

Richard Lynn "Rick" Scott (born 1953) is a businessman in the healthcare industry. He is also the founder of Conservatives for Patients' Rights (CPR) which advertises against expanding the U.S. government's role in regulating the healthcare system.
Scott founded the Columbia Hospital Corporation in 1987. With Columbia HCA Chairman Thomas J. Frist, the brother of Senator Bill Frist, the company merged Columbia with Hospital Corporation of America in 1989 to form Columbia/HCA. Ten years later, Scott was ousted by the company's board of directors in the midst of the nation's biggest health care fraud scandal in which the company ultimately plead guilty to the nation's then largest Medicaid and Medicare fraud and paid a record fine of $1.7 billion dollars. <1><2><3> In 2001, Scott co-founded the Solantic Corporation, which operates walk-in medical care centers. He also owns Continental Structural Plastics, North America's largest industrial composites molder.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_L._Scott
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 08:22 AM
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1. This ad has been in heavy rotation in NYC area for the past
week. A real teeth-grinder.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 08:24 AM
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2. love the name 'conservatives for patients rights'
typical puke bullshit....the public option is ALL ABOUT patients rights
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geckosfeet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 08:31 AM
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3. Ironic isn't it? Really what he wants is unlimited mandates and funding for
Edited on Sun Oct-11-09 08:32 AM by geckosfeet
his walk in medical centers. You know that is the only reason his lips are moving. A public option would essentially put his walk in centers on a regulated fees-for-services plan. He doesn't want that. He wants to set prices as high and as far as he can possibly get away with. And if people can't afford his services then too fucking bad for them - let them die.
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babyblonde Donating Member (69 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 09:48 AM
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4. THIS KILLER I$$$ MAKING A FORTUNE
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