Rick Scott Pushes Amendment to GOP Budget Bill That Could Kick Millions More Off Medicaid

[Brenda]

Sen. Rick Scott has introduced an amendment to the Republican budget bill that would slash another $313 million from Medicaid and kick off millions more recipients.

The latest analysis by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) found that 17 million people could lose their health insurance by 2034 as the result of the bill as it already exists.

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimated that this provision "would shift an additional $93 billion in federal Medicaid funding to states from 2031 through 2034 on top of the cuts already in the Senate bill."

This will almost certainly result in states having to cut back, by introducing their stricter requirements or paperwork hurdles.

Additionally, nine states have "trigger laws" that are set to end the program immediately if the federal matching rate is reduced: Arizona, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Montana, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Utah, and Virginia.

Why isn't this fucker in prison for his FRAUD of this very system in Florida? Who voted for him????

WIKI:

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.[41] Eight days after the initial raid, Scott signed his last SEC report as a hospital executive. Four months later, the board of directors pressured him to resign as chairman and CEO.[42] He was succeeded by Thomas F. Frist Jr.[43] Scott was paid $9.88 million in a settlement, and left owning 10 million shares of stock then worth more than $350 million.[44][45][46] 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.[43]

In 2000, during a deposition for a civil suit unrelated to the fraud investigation, Scott pleaded the Fifth Amendment 75 times.[47] 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 U.S. 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. It also admitted to 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. It filed false cost reports, fraudulently billed Medicare for home health care workers, and paid kickbacks in the sale of home health agencies and to doctors to refer patients. In addition, it gave doctors "loans" never intending to be repaid, free rent, free office furniture, and free drugs from hospital pharmacies.[48][8]

https://www.commondreams.org/news/rick-scott-medicaid-cuts

[Easterncedar]

1. Another friggin crook

He got his millions off of Medicare, why couldn’t he just bugger off and enjoy his wealth under whatever rock he crawled out from?

[spanone]

2. K&R

[Brenda]

3. Thanks for your K&R

Wow, your post count is huge.

[spanone]

5. Thanks for your thanks.

Appreciate you exposing the vile criminality of rick scott!!!!

Been around a while

[Tadpole Raisin]

4. Maybe voters in Florida will wake up and finally realize that

Republicans lie and this one has done more than steal lollipops from kids. He has committed crimes against everyone in the state and country while hauling in millions.

They’ve been so ingrained to believe that the worst R. is still better than the best D. and I will never understand it!

[malaise]

6. Adding this

The for profit hospital king
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220446678

[LuvLoogie]

7. Floridians keep voting for that fucking ghoul.

Deep MAGA.