Wednesday, December 15, 2010
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I am going to now shift gears to your comments concerning Rick Scott. Jessica could have revised her remark about Scott in this regard, is he a criminal or an incredibly stupid CEO. Either way he has, in my opinion, no qualification to be our Governor. You asked if she, "heard" about the fraud, like it was a story made up to discredit him. The facts are, Hospital Corporation of America, of which Rick Scott was CEO admitted to fourteen felonies and paid the federal government over $600 million. They paid $17.5 million to states in Medicaid fraud. They also paid out over $2 billion in civil suites. This amounted to the largest fraud settlement in United States history. The felonies HCA admitted to include, systematically over charging the government, illegal deals with home care agencies and physicians, fraudulent billing of Medicare and other health programs, kickback for doctors and home health care agencies for referring patients to HCA and gave "loans" to doctors that were never intended to be repaid. I will touch on Alex Sink in my next response.
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These are all facts. There is no way I could respond in writing to perhaps give my point of view fully, but ill try...
ReplyDelete- I am impressed with someone whom built a company as large as he[Scott] did. I feel that is at least a qualifier for handling large budgets, and moreover the "business" aspect needed in our governmental system. Sometimes someone is going to lose a job if payroll is the biggest expense on a P&L. I want someone wiling to do that. (Example: he was a horrible man that closed hospitals and actually made them efficient and well run. (If you accept the data he quoted.)
-Once and Im very disappointed to say "only once" I heard him plainly explain the fraud situation.(the rest of the times you could tell he had been coached by a campaign manager as if the people just cant hear a common sense response) I did not hear him bock, and I heard him take responsibility. He claimed that with a company of 250,000+ employees there were things that got away from him. His "learning lesson" was that he made a mistake in not verifying what was going on in his company. This would be the incompetent CEO your referencing. He also explained that new "regulation" (during the Clinton administration) in his field constituted certain clerical errors as the "fraud" he is accountable for. I am not afraid to allow someone "no matter how rich they are" (those evil rich) the luxury of learning lessons. I have a decision to make at this point. Is he a villain? Dose the fraud case mean he will rob Florida blind? Or am I willing to accept that a very good entrepreneur made mistakes and has hopefully learned from them?
Here I must admit... that just as you seem left leaning, I am certainly to the right. (so far in fact I feel the Republican party is simply a lessor form of socialism/tyranny... maybe you could call them religious socialist... I naturally would have a very hard time siding with Synk. As she has Liberal leanings. Im admitting my prejudice to "buy into" the anti-administration rhetoric of Scott.