Being ignorant of all that doesn’t inspire confidence. It’s no better to be a schnook than a crook.
— Nell Minnow of the watchdog Corporate Library, describing Republican candidate for Florida governor and former CEO of HCA/Columbia Healthcare Rick Scott. Scott claims to have been unaware of the hospital group’s massive fraud, including bogus Medicare and Medicaid billing, that was the subject of a ten-year Justice Department investigation resulting in guilty pleas to 14 felonies and the largest fines — $1.7 billion — ever charged a company. Scott went on to found Solantic urgent care clinics, which largely serve the uninsured on a cash basis, and Conservatives for Patients’ Rights, which financed much of the lobbying against and “grassroots” opposition to healthcare reform.
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