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Corporate Fraudster Leading the Fight Against Healthcare Reform

by TheCameraObscura | May 30, 2009 at 08:49 pm

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First, there was Republican pollster Frank Luntz passing his scripted anti-heath care reform talking points to Republicans who dutifully parroted it.

Now we have corporate healthcare fraudster Rick Scott leading another wave of anti-healthcare reform propoganda to air on NBC-TV (you can send an online protest letter to Steve Capus, NBC News President).

This Sunday, the front group Conservatives for Patients’ Rights will be airing a 30-minute documentary with “horror stories” aimed at chipping away public support for reforming our health care system.

Ironically, the leader and financier of the organization, private health care executive Rick Scott, is actually credited with transforming the American health care system into the profit above-all-else culture that is currently plaguing America.

Rick Scott is not only known for his efforts to build the “McDonald’s” of the health care industry, but his company was also forced to pay a $1.7 billion fraud settlement, the largest health care fraud settlement in U.S. history, for systematically stealing from taxpayers.

Conservatives for Patients’ Rights has also hired the same PR company that managed the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth smear campaign against John Kerry to direct its attacks on President Obama’s health care proposals.

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aspen7698

at 06:29 on July 25th, 2009

For profit healthcare is immoral. If the only way to be profitable is to deny patients essential medical treatment, it has no place in a civilized society.