cnn's Rick Sanchez vs. CPR's Rick Scott

[babylonsister]

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http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/06/rick-scott-sanchez/

CNN’s Rick Sanchez leaves Rick Scott fumbling to justify his health care corruption.


CNN’s Rick Sanchez ripped into Conservatives for Patients’ Rights founder Rick Scott today over his anti-health care reform advocacy efforts. Sanchez pointed out that Hospital Corporation of America/Columbia Hospital Corporation, which Scott founded, was charged with defrauding the government for more than a decade and had to pay the government a record $1.7 billion. “Some would argue, and it would be hard to say they’re wrong,” said Sanchez, “that you would be the poster child for everything that’s wrong with the greed that has hurt our current health care system.” Scott responded by pointing out that other companies also had to pay fines, which Sanchez responded was exactly the reason health care reform was so necessary:

How much more wrong can you be than what you just said? Not only is your company screwed up — and you just admitted to it — and you’re saying, look at all the other companies, they did the same thing! That doesn’t sound to me like a sterling system that we have, does it?

Scott became so desperate to defend himself that he tried to say the fines were paid after he left the company (even though the charges were from while he was there) and insisted, “No one went to jail.”

Scott also said that the American public should “love” what his company has done for health care. But Scott didn’t start his hospital business for the sake of improving the quality of care in 1987, but rather wanted to “do for hospitals…what McDonald’s has done in the food business.”

[Beaverhausen]

1. excellent- thanks for posting this

what a slimeball

[Jack Rabbit]

2. He grins like a used car salesman

A salesman is what he is, and a cheap, slimy one at that; he is not a healer.

[OlWiseRedEye]

6. Hey hey hey

There's nothing wrong with being a salesperson...

[LaPera]

3. Rick Scott, a lying republican pig.

[stlsaxman]

4. Rick Scum, more like.

[ro1942]

5. great work

realy like this sanchez, thanks for posting

[elleng]

7. ditto

[Stellar]

8. WOW, Lawrence O'Donnell went off on somebody today too!

Lawrence O'Donnell goes head to head with Republican Peter Schiff (08 06 2009).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJMc5c6z3E8

He pulled a Republican tactic that they don't like. Repunks love to talk over their guest.

[DeSwiss]

9. Scum.

- Just scum.

K&R

[mod mom]

10. That was excellent! Why was Columbia fined but no prison time for Rick Scott?

Was it due to his connections to bu$h & the GOP (think politicized DoJ) or is there some legal reason charges were bypassed? Yes, $1.7 BILLION is a lot of money but this guy is still filthy rich! He should have been made an example of!