Once Forced to Resign in Massive Fraud Case, Rick Scott Reborn as Anti-Healthcare Reform Lobbyist

[Amerigo Vespucci]

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Once Forced to Resign in Massive Fraud Case, Rick Scott Reborn as Leader of Anti-Healthcare Reform Lobby

By Susie Madrak Saturday Mar 28, 2009 6:45am

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/once-forced-resign-massive-fraud-case

From the Politico:

The Conservative Patients' Rights Action Fund -- the first group out of the box opposing Obama's healthcare plan -- has launched a second round of its campaign on the issue, a source involved in the group says.

The campaign focuses on Obama's proposal to set $634 billion in the federal budget aside for healthcare reform, and links the issue to the Congress's treatment of bonuses for AIG executives.

“Isn’t it amazing folks in Congress were shocked the plan THEY passed allowed those huge bonuses for AIG?" asks Rick Scott, the former healthcare executive who chairs the group, in a new television ad to be released tomorrow. "Now some in Congress want to raise taxes and spend $634 billion for the President’s healthcare overhaul - - WITHOUT even seeing all the details of his plan. They just never seem to learn."

Ah, yes, Rick Scott. Funny, the details the Politico leaves out of their stories! From Christopher Hayes in The Nation:

Having Scott lead the charge against healthcare reform is like tapping Bernie Madoff to campaign against tighter securities regulation. You see, the for-profit hospital chain Scott helped found--the one he ran and built his entire reputation on--was discovered to be in the habit of defrauding the government out of hundreds of millions of dollars.

This is the man who will be delivering what Politico called the "pro-free-market message."

[Overseas]

1. K&R for more evidence of right wing ethiics. //nt

[pattmarty]

2. That's an oxymoron, there is no such thing.

[Overseas]

4. Yes indeed. That's why I have that K&R category.

Theater of the absurd-- through the looking glass -- War is Peace --

Modern Republicans and their Right Wing Propaganda Machines are so out of touch with reality and classic ethical standards that they go ahead and push people to the forefront whether or not they have done monstrous contradictory things in the recent past.

They've got the so-called Joe The Plumber, whose name is not Joe and who is not licensed or a union member, pushing against the Employee Free Choice Act.

They even hop onto the corporate media to make bold declarations contrary to what they themselves have said on tape.

Or decry reckless spending after 8 years of supporting the war profiteering of Cheney's privatized military.

Or praise deregulating The Free Market, which we taxpayers are then free to bail out of its dumb, unethical procedures. I guess their ethical guidelines call it a Free Market because the players are Free From Consequences.

(edited grammar typo)

[tomm2thumbs]

3. another reason our free press is the 4th branch of government - lest we forget

enlightening to say the least