Gov. Rick Scott May Personally Benefit From New Law That Hands Medicaid Program Over To Private

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Gov. Rick Scott May Personally Benefit From New Law That Hands Medicaid Program Over To Private Companies
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2011/06/03/235858/gov-rick-scott-signs-law-to-hand-medicaid-program-to-private-companies-may-personally-benefit/

Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) signed “a landmark Medicaid overhaul” yesterday that will put “hundreds of thousands of low-income and elderly Floridians into managed-care plans.” The proposal “gives managed care companies more control over the program that’s paid for with federal and state money,” a shift the state GOP claims will “hold down spiraling costs in the $20 billion program.” However, as TP Health editor Igor Volsky pointed out, a five-county pilot program in Florida already revealed that such a plan produces “widespread complaints and little evidence of savings.” Under managed care, states “have to ensure that private payers aren’t looking out for short term profits by denying treatments or reducing reimbursement rates” and — given what occurred during the pilot program — the results “are already less than promising.”

But Scott may have another reason to push a dubious bill into law. As Mother Jones reported, one of the private managed-care companies that stand to gain from the new law is Solantic, “a chain of urgent-care clinics aimed at providing emergency services to walk-in customers. Solantic was founded in 2001 — by none other than Rick Scott:

The Florida governor founded Solantic in 2001, only a few years after he resigned as the CEO of hospital giant Columbia/HCA amid a massive Medicare fraud scandal. In January, according to the Palm Beach Post, he transferred his $62 million stake in Solantic to his wife, Ann Scott, a homemaker involved in various charitable organizations.

“This is a conflict of interest that raises a serious ethical issue,” says Marc Rodwin, a medical ethics professor at Suffolk University Law School in Boston. “The public should be thinking and worrying about this.”

Rick Scott's Medicaid Overhaul to Benefit…Rick Scott?
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/03/rick-scott-florida-medicaid-solantic

[QC]

1. If Scott does something, that something provides him and his class with a financial benefit.

That's how the man operates. You can bet your last dollar that anything the man does will put public money in his pocket.

[SharonAnn]

9. He looks for a way to connect with the spigot of taxpayer money

then makes sure it all flows to him.

Of course, he's going to benefit.

Why else would he do it?

He knows Medicare and Medicaid stuff inside and out, how to defraud them so that it's not obvious, and how to continue "playing the game" of stuffing the money in his pockets.

He got elected on the money he stole from Medicare and the taxpayers. In other words, the money he stole from you and me!

[Octafish]

2. Rick Scott isn't making a penny off the legislation.

He's gonna rake in billions.

[Harmony Blue]

5. Along with drug testing of public employees quarterly

Solantic is poised for big gains indeed.

[rzemanfl]

6. Interestingly, the time limit for agencies to come up with their

plans has come and gone. I am not aware of any agency actually coming forth with a plan. I know the one I work for hasn't. I think he did that just to jack up the price of the drug testing piece of Solantic, which I believe his wife then sold. Drug testing state workers was an executive order, not an act of the legislature.

[Octafish]

8. Pays big to be friends of the BFEE

Not to forget RW Psychopath and Medicare Fraudster Rick Scott

Most importantly: A hearty welcome to DU, Harmony Blue!

[Mimosa]

11. LOL

Octafish, I saw the title and feared this board had gone more right wing.

Then I clicked. And saw it was Y.O.U. delivering the truth as usual. :7

[aquart]

3. Is it illegal? Who can arrest him?

[Harmony Blue]

7. The ACLU will definitely be

opening up many cases against Scott.

[HockeyMom]

10. They already are

The first is for random drug testing of all current government employees. If you look at most of Scott's Executive Orders or legislation that he spear headed, how much of it involves drug testing (as in mandatory sonograms for ALL women seeking abortions)? Hmmm.

[librechik]

4. OF COOOOOOUUURSE!! n/t

[HillbillyBob]

12. Floridiots vote for corruption..major reason we left

under the last puke jb I was sent to an OBGyn for my hiv..i am male. That rat bastard killed my drs license because he had a high patient survival rate..like 90% over 10 yrs . I am 30 yr hiv survivor in part thanks to that dr.