People like Florida senator “tax the poor and working class” Rick Scott. He was an ethically challenged health care executive who apparently gouged Medicare.
People like Florida senator “tax the poor and working class” Rick Scott. He was an ethically challenged health care executive who apparently gouged Medicare.
"Ethically challenged" is too kind. He pled the 5th 75 times after being ousted as CEO of Columbia/HCA when the hospital company was fined $1.7 billion for Medicare fraud. Private insurers, reasoning that if the company defrauded the government, it surely defrauded them, too, quietly settled their claims against the company.
And while we're on the subject of drug companies, the Columbia/HCA settlement was a record at the time for health care fraud. It has since been surpassed in cases related to the improper promotion of certain drugs, Johnson & Johnson agreed to a a $2.2 billion settlement in 2013, Pfizer settled for $2.3 billion in 2009, and GlaxoSmithKline settled for $3 billion in 2012.
Check out the YouTube video of Rick Scott’s deposition in the HCA fraud case…watch his face (always looking away) and his body language (writhing in his seat)
People like Florida senator “tax the poor and working class” Rick Scott. He was an ethically challenged health care executive who apparently gouged Medicare.
"Ethically challenged" is too kind. He pled the 5th 75 times after being ousted as CEO of Columbia/HCA when the hospital company was fined $1.7 billion for Medicare fraud. Private insurers, reasoning that if the company defrauded the government, it surely defrauded them, too, quietly settled their claims against the company.
And while we're on the subject of drug companies, the Columbia/HCA settlement was a record at the time for health care fraud. It has since been surpassed in cases related to the improper promotion of certain drugs, Johnson & Johnson agreed to a a $2.2 billion settlement in 2013, Pfizer settled for $2.3 billion in 2009, and GlaxoSmithKline settled for $3 billion in 2012.
Can’t ❤️ but YES! Let’s talk about the Sacklers. They are responsible for opioid deaths in our country. They too, were hit with billions in lawsuits.
If you want more detail on the Columbia/HCA fraud scheme, find it here:
https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2003/June/03_civ_386.htm
Check out the YouTube video of Rick Scott’s deposition in the HCA fraud case…watch his face (always looking away) and his body language (writhing in his seat)
He is a true POS! (Piece of 💩)
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The New Yorker covered this as well
Yes. Thanks for supplying facts. Criminality begat by amorality