Rick Scott is Not a fiscal Conservative on Health Care

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some state officials are concurring with U.S. Department of Health and Human Services projections that, overall, increases in Medicaid spending to cover the new law’s expansion will be offset by decreases in, for example, money spent caring for the uninsured in emergency rooms and existing government allocations to hospitals serving the indigent.

http://www.thecrimereport.org/news/articles/2012-08-the-prison-health-care-dilemma

Yet, Rick Scott opposes expansion of Medicaid under Obamacare, and uses lies to justify himself:

Florida Governor Rick Scott has never been one to let facts get in the way of conservative ideology, and recently he’s been trumpeting a lot of untruths about the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. He claims the law’s expansion of Medicaid coverage will cost Florida $1.9 billion a year; it’s actually closer to $500 million. Regardless, Scott is determined not to implement the health reform law, which the U.S. Supreme Court upheld last month while still letting states opt out of its Medicaid expansion. And he’s not alone. At least four other conservative governors, mostly in the South, say their states won’t augment their Medicaid rolls, one of Obamacare’s key provisions for reaching near universal coverage.

You can cut these Tea Party warriors some slack and acknowledge, as my colleague Joe Klein has, that growing a “troubled program” like Medicaid, the joint federal-state system that gets health insurance to the nation’s poorest residents, may not be Obamacare’s smartest idea. The problem is that many of the states rejecting the Medicaid expansion â€" which the federal government would fund 100% for the first three years starting in 2014, and then gradually decrease to 90% by 2020 â€" don’t offer much in its stead. Texas, where Governor Rick Perry this week called Obamacare’s reforms “brazen intrusions,” has the nation’s highest rate of uninsured residents, 25%; Florida, at 21%, is right behind it.



Read more: http://swampland.time.com/2012/07/11/rick-scott-is-turning-down-obamas-medicaid-expansion-is-he-turning-off-florida-voters-too/#ixzz22VAzeWnS

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and not on defense spending either...he just sent a letter to Congress talking about the perils of cutting defense spending.

see, its not that Republicans think government spending is bad....its that certain types are bad.

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and not on defense spending either...he just sent a letter to Congress talking about the perils of cutting defense spending.

see, its not that Republicans think government spending is bad....its that certain types are bad.

So true! The types of spending that help people with disabilities, the sick, the elderly and our kids are all considered bad. Even our infrastructure apparently magically appears, because somehow we never need to maintain it or improve it in Republican speak.

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He has the lowest approval ratings of any Republican Governor, BusinessWeek showed a 31% approval rating, Tom Slade, his campaign adviser, called him weird. Classic Slade!

[Dog Walker]

Tom Slade calling Rick Scott weird is pot calling kettle indeed!  At least to those of us who have the dubious honor of knowing Tom Slade.

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“Rick Scott doesn’t seem to have any political skills at all,” says Tom Slade, former co-chairman of Scott’s campaign. “I’d give him a B for governing. I’d give him an A for strangeness.”

As if I could make up such printed material???

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-07-26/the-gops-rick-scott-problem

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Rick Scott is not a conservative at all.

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Hang on Mini-Me! If anything should happen to you I don't know what I would do. I'd probably move on, get another replica but there would be a 10 minute period there where I would just be inconsolable.

[birddog]

Who can forget that Rick Scott presided over Columbia/HCA during the time it was committing the biggest case of Medicare fraud in history. According to the Wikipedia entry on Gov. Scott, “On March 19, 1997, investigators from the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Health and Human Services served search warrants at Columbia/HCA facilities in El Paso and on dozens of doctors with suspected ties to the company.  Following the raids, the Columbia/HCA board of directors forced Goldfinger to resign as Chairman and CEO.”  Read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Scott

The company under Scott’s leadership defrauded the federal government of hundreds of millions of dollars and ultimately admitted to fourteen felonies and agreed to pay the federal government over $600 million.  At the time, this was the biggest case of Medicare fraud ever.  It's easy to find videos on YouTube of his deposition, both edited and unedited.

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Thank you, Ock!  You have brightened up an otherwise cloudy and rainy day.

Birddog, I've never been able to understand why Rick Scott wasn't indited since he was so obviously in charge of HCA.  Guess it was easier for the Feds to accept a huge settlement than to take him to court.

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Who can forget that Rick Scott presided over Columbia/HCA during the time it was committing the biggest case of Medicare fraud in history. According to the Wikipedia entry on Gov. Scott, “On March 19, 1997, investigators from the FBI, the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Health and Human Services served search warrants at Columbia/HCA facilities in El Paso and on dozens of doctors with suspected ties to the company.  Following the raids, the Columbia/HCA board of directors forced Goldfinger to resign as Chairman and CEO.”  Read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Scott

The company under Scott’s leadership defrauded the federal government of hundreds of millions of dollars and ultimately admitted to fourteen felonies and agreed to pay the federal government over $600 million.  At the time, this was the biggest case of Medicare fraud ever.  It's easy to find videos on YouTube of his deposition, both edited and unedited.

Yup, defrauding the federal government is A-ok. But using the federal government for legitimate needs of Florida's people......oh NOOOOOOOOO!

Obamacare's Medicaid Expansion Helps Middle-Class Families, State Economies

Medicaid is a lifeline for seniors, children, working families and people with disabilities. It creates jobs by pumping dollars into local economies. It keeps open the doors of local hospitals and community health centers. Medicaid keeps millions of middle-class families from going bankrupt from the high cost of nursing-home and in-home care.

Medicaid benefits about 60 million people directly, and it plays a huge role in our lives:
• It's the backbone of nursing home care for seniors.
• It's how the poorest children get sorely needed medical care. Half of Medicaid recipients are children.
• It gives people a chance to get back on their feet when times are tough. Sixty-five percent of people who receive Medicaid are from working families.
• It serves millions of people with severe mental and physical disabilities and helps them live independently in their own homes.

About half of Americans report some personal connection to Medicaid, because they have received health coverage or long‐term care themselves or have a friend or family member who has gotten this type of assistance.

The Obamacare expansion of Medicaid benefits to those making 133 percent of the poverty level is a good deal for states and taxpayers:
• The federal government will pick up 100% of the cost of covering people made newly eligible for the first three years and never pay less than 90 percent a year on a permanent basis.
• States can expand coverage to 17 million people by spending only 2.8% more than they do today. That's serious bang for the buck.
• States do even better when factoring in the savings on uncompensated care for the uninsured. Analysts estimate states will save as much as $100 billion.

Expanding Medicaid will also provide financial relief to hospitals that care for a disproportionate share of uninsured people. Since those families will have coverage in 2014, the law phases out special federal hospital funding that covers unpaid medical bills. If extremist governors refuse the expansion funds, their hospitals will continue to suffer high costs for uncompensated care - but without the important federal dollars that currently fill the gap.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ethan-rome/obamacares-medicaid-expan_b_1748399.html?utm_hp_ref=politics