bill frists' HCA was fined 1.7 BILLION for fraudulent billing....the largest fine ever

[spanone]

and now he's on msnbc weighing in on the healthcare issue

no thanks bill

they were fraudulently billing medicare and medicaid....STEALING from the american people

HCA = hospital corporation of america

and here in nashville tennessee we have buildings named after the frist family, as if they are model citizens......

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

1. Using the Acorn logic, he should be banned from government money. nt

[polichick]

2. Like Tom Delay showing up on msnbc - such an insult to viewers. nt

[Submariner]

3. Is that Quack still in the vegetative-state video-tape diagnosis business?

What a loon. I pity his poor patients.

[ellenfl]

4. was that medicare fraud? perhaps that's why republicans

know so much about it.

ellen fl

[spanone]

yep...link

snip.... In the late-1990s, after a merger with Louisville-based Columbia Hospital Corporation which formed Columbia/HCA, the company was investigated by the government for Medicare and Medicaid fraud and paid a settlement of $1.7 billion, the largest fraud settlement in US history at the time. Then-CEO Rick Scott was ousted by the board of directors but he was not criminally prosecuted.<3> Rick Scott was found to be heading the leading "astroturfing" group against Healthcare reform in the nation during 2009 - "Conservatives for Patients’ Rights" <4>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_corporation_of_america

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. And yet again the Republicans help make true their mantr that government doesn't work

and that people take advantage of the system.

They know that, because they're the fuckers doing it.

[GoCubsGo]

6. Dr. Cat Killer is on Dylan Ratigan's show now.

Dylan is slapping him silly!

I'm sick of seeing this scumbag's mug all over the place lately. I guess he has a new book out. Think he has a chapter in it on how to defraud Medicare?

[unpossibles]

7. How the hell do these people manage do keep doing this?

I mean, why does the media treat these rightwing criminals with respect as if they had an expert opinion?

[babylonsister]

8. He's a disingenuous POS. Mentioned prescription 'reform'

while he was in the Senate, but didn't mention funds weren't allocated to pay for it. And, he wasn't called on it. :grr:

[malaise]

9. M$Greedia loves corporate thieves

They are welcomed with open arms.

[peekaloo]

10. Fraudulent Bill Frist

has a nice ring to it.

[The Backlash Cometh]

11. If that doesn't say guilty, guilty guilty, I don't know what else does.