Reply #6: seems that HCA and "Senator" Frist are mighty cosy [View All]

[UpInArms]

so why wouldn't they (his brother and father) tell him what was going on financially with HCA?

http://www.pww.org/article/view/4993/1/208/

excerpt:

Frist is the expert on profits in health, especially hospitals. His family runs the largest for-profit hospital system in the United States and the world, Hospital Corporation of America (HCA). He is well aware that it is not possible for for-profit hospitals to charge affordable rates and still turn the huge profits he and his investors demand. They have been caught bilking Medicare and Medicaid for billions of dollars, yet they make policy.

The Columbia/HCA Medicare fraud case holds the record as the largest Medicare fraud case in history. HCA suddenly agreed to pay the biggest fines in the history of Medicare just before Frist took over his leadership position in the Senate. HCA is owned by Frist’s father and brother who were both implicated in the fraud.

Why would HCA choose to settle the fraud suit and "pay the biggest fines in the history of Medicare" just at that moment (when Frist was elevated to the Senate leadership)?

Awwww - come on folks (lurkers and other readers out there) think about it for more than 2 seconds. These people are always covering each other's backsides.

Let's make this one cost the greedy pigs a bit more than just money.