It is well-known that 100,000 Americans die due to Medical mal-practice. Most people think of medical errors due to negligence, but lives are also lost due to intentional policies that cut corners in order to maximize profits.
A deliberate profit maximizing strategy that resulted in poor healthcare delivery and caused immense suffering and death.
Not only did federal agents raid Rick Scott’s Columbia/HCA hospital chain across America, and was the company fined $1.7 billion for defrauding Medicare, but the hospital chain also provided sub-standard care to many of their Medicare patients.
Mark Woods of the Florida Times union has a host of questions about care received by his father in one of Rick Scott’s Columbia/HCA hospitals, in 1996. Just days after his father walked out of that Columbia/HCA hospital, he died.
Long before Mr. Scott took his $300 million parachute and moved to Florida, long before I had any idea where he stood on any political issue, I had a box filled with questions, topped by this one: Was it possible that my father’s care was symptomatic of something larger?
Apparently so.
In the 1990s, while some nurses and administrators were complaining about corner cutting, CEO Scott spent more than $1,500 per bed, per year on marketing.
Rick Scott is good at propaganda while stealing money from our government and stealing the lives of patients that were entrusted to his company.
We cannot entrust the governorship of Florida to this outright crook.
Vote Alex Sink for Governor!!
