Feb ‘11
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Rick Scott Becomes C.E.O. of Florida
Rick Scott made a fortune running the first and largest for-profit hospital corporation in America. He knows how to make money in a health care system as dysfunctional as ours. And he had the good fortune to escape responsibility for any wrong doing when HCA paid $1.7 billion fine in a U.S. Medicare fraud suit against his company. Unlike eBay’s Meg Whitman, he was also able to persuade Floridians he could use that experience to benefit them and they elected him governor. This week he told the Florida Tea Parties in Eustis that he’ll make all the hard decisions necessary to cut government spending and taxes including turning over the Medicaid program to managed care companies. Rick’s legal expertise also enabled him to declare the new ACA health laws do not apply in the state of Florida; thanks to the decision of south Florida Federal Judge Roger Vinson, whose decision Modern Healthcare Managing Editor Neil McLaughlin called “a hybrid of law and ideology.”
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