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muriel_volestrangler

(101,146 posts)
Wed Jul 22, 2020, 08:37 AM Jul 2020

Rick Scott wants schools open, but his grandchildren will be distance learning

The safety of the poor is not his concern - he's only a US senator, after all!

U.S. Sen. Rick Scott wants schools to reopen, but he said his grandchildren won’t be in them.

On Tuesday’s edition of Varney and Co. on the Fox Business Network, the first-term Republican from Naples said, while parents should have “choice,” that choice should include distance learning, in addition to five days in brick-and-mortar buildings.

“My daughters are going to be more focused on distance learning right now to make sure their children are safe,” Scott told Varney. “Other parents are going to want to make sure their kids are in the classroom.”
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“Some [parents] are going to do it because it’s a way for students to get a subsidized meal, things like that,” Scott said.

The Senator was sure to praise state’s Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran, who roiled parents statewide when he ordered schools to fully open when the new school year begins in August.

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/350852-distance-learning-rick-scott
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ok_cpu

(2,029 posts)
1. I can't process the next-to-last quoted paragraph
Wed Jul 22, 2020, 08:39 AM
Jul 2020

Some parents will put their children and families in danger in order to be able to feed them.

And this ok with Scott. Encouraged even.

Squinch

(50,773 posts)
2. Somehow in NY we were able to continue school meals without continuing school.
Wed Jul 22, 2020, 08:43 AM
Jul 2020

These people are so evil there is no wonder you have difficulty processing it. It means you are a person with a soul that is not deformed.

genxlib

(5,506 posts)
4. Same in South Florida
Wed Jul 22, 2020, 08:47 AM
Jul 2020

The two don't have to go together.

It should be an eye opener to middle America that public schools have become a hunger program. But they have undertaken this mission in service to their primary goal since we seem incapable of managing childhood hunger as a laudable goal of its own.

lapucelle

(18,037 posts)
10. And the deliveries kept school bus drivers, TLC cabbies, and uber drivers safely employed
Wed Jul 22, 2020, 09:13 AM
Jul 2020

if they chose to participate.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
11. GA counties delivered lunches to homes when schools closed.
Wed Jul 22, 2020, 09:21 AM
Jul 2020

Agree that this reveals depraved indifference to life, though I doubt his daughters allowed him any say in their decisions.

spanone

(135,627 posts)
3. Scott is among the worse in congress
Wed Jul 22, 2020, 08:45 AM
Jul 2020

bought his way in after defrauding the government in HCA scandal

Columbia/HCA[edit]
In April 1987, Scott made his first attempt to buy the Hospital Corporation of America (HCA). While still a partner at Johnson & Swanson, Scott formed the HCA Acquisition Company with two former executives of Republic Health Corporation, Charles Miller and Richard Ragsdale.[29] With financing from Citicorp conditional on acquisition of HCA,[30] the proposed holding company offered $3.85 billion for 80 million shares at $47 each, intending to assume an additional $1.2 billion in debt, for a total $5 billion deal. However, HCA declined the offer, and the bid was withdrawn.[31]

In 1994, Columbia Hospital Corporation merged with HCA, "forming the single largest for-profit health care company in the country." Scott became CEO of Columbia/HCA.[32] According to The New York Times, "[in] less than a decade, Mr. Scott had built a company he founded with two small hospitals in El Paso into the world's largest health care company – a $20 billion giant with about 350 hospitals, 550 home health care offices and score of other medical businesses in 38 states."[33]

On March 19, 1997, investigators from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Health and Human Services served search warrants at Columbia/HCA facilities in El Paso and on dozens of doctors with suspected ties to the company.[34] Eight days after the initial raid, Scott signed his last SEC report as a hospital executive. Four months later, the board of directors pressured Scott to resign as chairman and CEO.[35] He was succeeded by Thomas F. Frist Jr.[36] Scott was paid $9.88 million in a settlement, and left owning 10 million shares of stock then worth more than $350 million.[37][38][39] The directors had been warned in the company's annual public reports to stockholders that incentives Columbia/HCA offered doctors could run afoul of a federal anti-kickback law passed in order to limit or eliminate instances of conflicts of interest in Medicare and Medicaid.[36]

During Scott's 2000 deposition, he pleaded the Fifth Amendment many times.[40] In settlements reached in 2000 and 2002, Columbia/HCA pleaded guilty to 14 felonies and agreed to a $600+ million fine in what was at the time the largest health care fraud settlement in American history. Columbia/HCA admitted systematically overcharging the government by claiming marketing costs as reimbursable, by striking illegal deals with home care agencies, and by filing false data about use of hospital space. They also admitted fraudulently billing Medicare and other health programs by inflating the seriousness of diagnoses and to giving doctors partnerships in company hospitals as a kickback for the doctors referring patients to HCA. They filed false cost reports, fraudulently billing Medicare for home health care workers, and paid kickbacks in the sale of home health agencies and to doctors to refer patients. In addition, they gave doctors "loans" never intending to be repaid, free rent, free office furniture, and free drugs from hospital pharmacies.[41][8]

In late 2002, HCA agreed to pay the United States government $631 million, plus interest, and pay $17.5 million to state Medicaid agencies, in addition to $250 million paid up to that point to resolve outstanding Medicare expense claims.[42] In all, civil lawsuits cost HCA more than $2 billion to settle; at the time, this was the largest fraud settlement in American history.[43][44]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Scott

sop

(9,943 posts)
5. Meanwhile, Governor DeSantis said IF his kids were school-aged, he would happily send them to
Wed Jul 22, 2020, 08:50 AM
Jul 2020

brick and mortar schools: “My own wife, our kids aren’t school-aged yet, I tell her that they’re at zero risk, I have no problem putting them in, and I think that convinced her. She said she would do it too.”

DeSantis wants every parent of school-aged children in Florida to know their kids are at "zero risk."

Tanuki

(14,893 posts)
9. That is bizarre. He has no skin in the game but claims he would
Wed Jul 22, 2020, 09:05 AM
Jul 2020

gladly sacrifice his hypothetical school-age children, IF he had any! Is there anyone so stupid as to find that convincing?

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