Medicaid paid drug-maker in Scott's portfolio hundreds of millions

[RockaFowler]

https://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/news/medicaid-paid-drug-maker-scott-portfolio-hundreds-millions/4WXtMwqiFtVMfVGh3MdqpI/?utm_page=mainpage&utm_source=facebook

Gov. Rick Scott and his wife Ann have drawn profits of at least $250,000 — and as much as $2.1 million — from a drug company whose sky-high prices are draining state Medicaid coffers.

Florida Medicaid, the perennially cash-strapped health program for Florida’s poorest and sickest residents, has paid as much as $770 million for Gilead Sciences drugs since 2013, a Palm Beach Post analysis shows. That bill includes Gilead’s $1,000-a-pill cure for the liver-destroying hepatitis C virus, a cost that generated congressional scrutiny and forced Florida Medicaid to ration life-saving treatment.

I didn't want to post this on the General Discussion page because of the Kav stuff. I thought it would last longer here in the Florida forum. How much more can this thief take?? How many more times do we have to hear these types of stories from him and his cronies????

[badhair77]

1. Disgusting. But not surprising.

Steal from the poorest and weakest. That must have been a commandment I missed.