GOP one-man clown show Rick Scott conducts a master class in Republican hypocrisy

 

Headline:  Florida Bulldog, 3/21/2024

U. S. Sen. Rick Scott, R-FL, knows a thing or two about Medicare fraud.   

He built and ran Columbia/HCA, the huge hospital company that’s become synonymous with mega-healthcare fraud since it was forced to pay $1.7 billion in criminal fines and civil restitution in the early 2000s. 

So it’s not without a heavy dose of irony that Florida’s junior senator is today sounding an alarm about an increase in Medicare fraud. 

Richard L. Scott was no longer Columbia/HCA’s CEO when those penalties were assessed. He’d quit under pressure on July 25, 1997, eight days after the FBI and Department of Health and Human Services agents raided nearly three dozen company hospitals in six states, including Florida. To cushion his departure, Scott raked in a reported severance of $17 million.

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