Rick Scott knows a thing or two about American health care.
As Columbia/HCA Healthcare CEO, Scott 'oversaw the largest Medicare fraud' case - $1.7 billion - in U.S. history.
Today, as both the Zika virus and guacamole algae threaten two mainstays of Florida’s economy — tourism and waterfront real estate; mindful that Florida has no state income tax to fall back on — Scott rails against the Federal government for not providing tens of $ millions aid for each.
Now it’s one thing to reject Federal $2.4 billion for a high-speed rail line connecting Tampa and Orlando. And it remains incomprehensible that Scott (along with Marco Rubio and the overwhelmingly Republican-dominated State legislature (think stand your ground)) rejects climate change and the rising sea, going so far as prohibiting any mention of 'climate change,' global warming' or 'sustainability' from government business, despite the all-but-certain ruination of tourism and real estate if left unaddressed.
But Rick Scott’s rejection of the estimated 51 $billion over ten years that would provide Medicaid expansion to approximately 800,000 less privileged Floridians... shameful, ungodly, loathsome, abhorrent, barbaric, contemptible: any/all barely do justice to this cruel, sadistic, politically craven inhumanity.
He must be utterly fearless of the afterlife.
"The inevitable expansion of the Medicaid expansion," healthinsurance.org
"Health Care Expansion Is Rejected in Florida," NY Times
"Petition aims at putting Medicaid expansion in Florida to a vote in the 2016 presidential election," Florida Times-Union
"Florida lawmakers, most of whom oppose Medicaid expansion, benefit from generous tax-subsidized health insurance," Miami Herald
"On Medicaid Expansion, a Question of Math and Politics," Pew Charitable Trust
"New report shows Medicaid expansion in Florida can improve behavioral health care access," Florida Trend
"Majority Of Texans And Floridians Want Medicaid Expansion, Survey Shows," Kaiser Health News
"Benefits of Medicaid Expansion in Florida," Florida Policy Institute