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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

This is what happens in the aftermath of "voting by tantrum"
Posted by Jill | 5:58 AM
Those independent voters who see Mitt Romney as a shiny new object that they can live with just because they're all pouty and angry at Barack Obama might want to look at Florida governor Rick Scott as a cautionary tale. Because in a sea of really shitty, mean-spirited teabagger governors, this greedy bastard takes first prize:
Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) signed “a landmark Medicaid overhaul” yesterday that will put “hundreds of thousands of low-income and elderly Floridians into managed-care plans.” The proposal “gives managed care companies more control over the program that’s paid for with federal and state money,” a shift the state GOP claims will “hold down spiraling costs in the $20 billion program.” However, as TP Health editor Igor Volsky pointed out, a five-county pilot program in Florida already revealed that such a plan produces “widespread complaints and little evidence of savings.” Under managed care, states “have to ensure that private payers aren’t looking out for short term profits by denying treatments or reducing reimbursement rates” and — given what occurred during the pilot program — the results “are already less than promising.”

But Scott may have another reason to push a dubious bill into law. As Mother Jones reported, one of the private managed-care companies that stand to gain from the new law is Solantic, “a chain of urgent-care clinics aimed at providing emergency services to walk-in customers. Solantic was founded in 2001 — by none other than Rick Scott:
The Florida governor founded Solantic in 2001, only a few years after he resigned as the CEO of hospital giant Columbia/HCA amid a massive Medicare fraud scandal. In January, according to the Palm Beach Post, he transferred his $62 million stake in Solantic to his wife, Ann Scott, a homemaker involved in various charitable organizations.[...]


“This is a conflict of interest that raises a serious ethical issue,” says Marc Rodwin, a medical ethics professor at Suffolk University Law School in Boston. “The public should be thinking and worrying about this.”


But they won't. Because after all, Anthony Weiner has a penis, and that's SO much more important.

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Anonymous Charlie O said...
How can a guy involved in an enormous Medicare fraud case be allowed to sign legislation involving Medicaid or Medicare?

I lived in Florida twice. In Tampa and Jacksonville. If Texas secedes, I hope they take Florida with them. Dregs of American down there. They deserve what they voted for.
6/15/11, 9:32 AM  
Blogger casey said...
Hello Jill,

I think you mean mangled care not managed care It is of course possible to use managed care if the meaning is the insurance companies manage to get your money and give you inferior or nonexistent care or even both simultaneously.
6/15/11, 2:41 PM  
Blogger Steve said...
Its another case of rule by overlords and a public apathy polished into an art from. Its so obvious, yet not a single negative consequence.
6/15/11, 2:56 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Well, I guess this is what happens when you elect a psychopathic CEO type who thinks this country ought to be USA, Inc.
6/15/11, 4:28 PM  
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