Fraudsters Opposed to Health Care Reform

Rick Scott ran the group engaged in the largest health care frauds in U.S. history.

He was stealing your money. Not thousands of dollars, not millions of dollars, but billions of dollars. Columbia-HCA paid back only a fraction of what it stole.

Now Rick Scott is leading the charge as head of "Conservatives for Patient Rights." He is one the people paying to gin up the fringe-right lunatics who are showing up at town hall meetings.

Question: When did "Conservative" become a euphemism for liars, cheats and thieves?

Because you know something? It's not. Or at least it shouldn't be.

John Wayne was a conservative, but he was not one of these professional hysterics, was he? He was not the kind of anonymous coward who sends out blast emails full of lies. He was not a red-face screamer. And he was not a thief.

Rick Scott, however, is simply a con man. And, like most con men, he thinks he is smart enough to con you again.

His defense, to be seen in the video, above, is that "hey $1.7 billion may be a record health care fraud, but really we didn't steal that much money .... you should see how much money the other hospitals are stealing."

Amazing.

This is a conservative? I don't think so, but I sure as heck don't see the Republican Party, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Steele, or Fox News standing up to denounce this charlatan. Their silence speak volumes.

As for those who think private health insurance companies are getting ripped off less than Medicare and Medicaid, think again. It's not true. As even the American Medical Association notes, fraud is occuring in private plans just as much as it is in Government plans. And people like Rick Scott are the reason why.
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