Rick Scott wins

[beachFool]

You must have read a different news story than I did. They seem to have treated HCA rather well. And HCA treated Scott well.

Unless you have now started believing in trickle down economics, why do you keep trying to blame Scott for the Clintons attacking him through the Federal Justice system because he objected to Hillarycare?

Also just saw where he got more applause than Sink at a conference, so there. He is obviously more qualified, the people have clapped.

Well it depends how you define qualified and treated well.

PolitiFact Florida | Rick Scott, former healthcare CEO, faces questions about past


Among the revelations from the 2000 settlement:

• Columbia billed Medicare, Medicaid, the Defense Department's TRICARE health care program, and the Federal Employees' Health Benefits Program for lab tests that were not medically necessary or not ordered by physicians;
• The company attached false diagnosis codes to patient records in order to increase reimbursement to the hospitals;
• The company illegally claimed non-reimbursable marketing and advertising costs as community education;
• Columbia billed the government for home health care visits for patients who did not qualify to receive them.

The government settled a second series of claims with Columbia/HCA in 2002 for an additional $881 million.
For a whopping total of $1.7B in fines.

 

[30ashopper]

Has anything ever been published that shows Scott was involved in the decisions revolving around the fraud case?

 

[Lake View Too]

Has anything ever been published that shows Scott was involved in the decisions revolving around the fraud case?

From my understanding, he was/is the CEO or president of this company. If he could reap the profits he reaped and not know it was fraudulent, then he was either incredibly dumb, or incredibly shrewd enough to distance himself from a billion dollars worth of fraud. Either way, is this someone you want to trust your state to?

 

[LuciferSam]

From my understanding, he was/is the CEO or president of this company. If he could reap the profits he reaped and not know it was fraudulent, then he was either incredibly dumb, or incredibly shrewd enough to distance himself from a billion dollars worth of fraud. Either way, is this someone you want to trust your state to?

He was on Lou Dobb's Money line the day before he got ousted. I saw it (probably live) and he was a babbling idiot. If anybody has that clip please post it. It's priceless.

 

[AlphaCrab]

From my understanding, he was/is the CEO or president of this company. If he could reap the profits he reaped and not know it was fraudulent, then he was either incredibly dumb, or incredibly shrewd enough to distance himself from a billion dollars worth of fraud. Either way, is this someone you want to trust your state to?

Untrustworthy as our Governor. I have heard, seriously, that he is a good fisherman though, seriously.

 

[30ashopper]

From my understanding, he was/is the CEO or president of this company. If he could reap the profits he reaped and not know it was fraudulent, then he was either incredibly dumb, or incredibly shrewd enough to distance himself from a billion dollars worth of fraud. Either way, is this someone you want to trust your state to?

Well, association doesn't imply guilt. Pelosi, Reid, and Obama all know Charlie Rangle, but that doesn't automatically make them felons.

 

[wrobert]

I'm not blaming Scott for anything. He obviously is a savvy, if not tarnished, businessman. The fact is that he got crazy rich off of Medicare and Medicaid, two programs that would be considered 'socialist' by the litmus test applied by the Tea Party types. Look, this guy is unpalatable to moderate Republicans and Independents. He is going to lose, Alex Sink is going to win. I'll bet you a hot dog at that place in Defuniak Springs on this prediction.

Make it the place in Emerald Coast Plaza. I am in the south probably more than you are in the north and the dawgs were pretty good there last week.

 

[Lake View Too]

Well, association doesn't imply guilt. Pelosi, Reid, and Obama all know Charlie Rangle, but that doesn't automatically make them felons.

I hope you're being facetious. There is no "association" between Scott and the $1B fraud. From everything I've heard he was the man who did it, he's, more or less, admitted it, and it's up to you whether this seems revelant in your choice of a governor.

 

[30ashopper]

I hope you're being facetious. There is no "association" between Scott and the $1B fraud. From everything I've heard he was the man who did it, he's, more or less, admitted it, and it's up to you whether this seems revelant in your choice of a governor.

Link? I've been doing some reading on this and there is nothing linking him to these cases. If you're going to charge someone with a crime, please back it up with real evidence. (Follow up: If that evidence existed and the connection was obvious, why didn't the Clinton Administration charge him?)

 

[Here4Good]

You got to remember that all of Scott's problems were because he opposed Hillarycare.

So, it's a vast left wing conspiracy?