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Meet Rick Scott and here's his bullshit sales pitch  . . .

Now really meet Rick Scott.

Let Maggie Maher give you a little background on this snake oil salesman.

Who Is Richard Scott-- and Why Is He Saying These Things about Health Care Reform? March 03, 2008 - HealthBeatBlog.org

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Meanwhile, Wall Street scrambled to finance Columbia/HCA's growth. The stock spiraled, and Scott  used the company's  ever-more valuable stock to acquire more hospitals. He quickly became a serial acquirer. Growth for the sake of growth. That was the mantra of the 1990s. Until the music stopped.

In Scott's case, that happened a short three years after he became CEO of Columbia/HCA. In July of 1997, the FBI swooped down on HCA hospitals in five states. Within weeks, three executives were indicted on charges of Medicare fraud, and the board had ousted Scott.

The investigation revealed that the hospital chain had been bilking Medicare while simultaneously handing over kickbacks and perks to physicians who steered patients to its hospitals. One can only wonder how many of those patients really needed to be hospitalized--and how many were harmed.

The company did not fight the charges. In 2000, HCA (which by then had expunged "Columbia" from its name) pleaded guilty to no fewer than 14 felonies. Over the next two years, it would pay a total of $1.7 billion in criminal and civil fines.

And now . . . .Scott's back.

Entire post here: healthbeatblog.com/2009/03/who-is-richard-scott