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In reply to the discussion: Bush, after 'phase out' comment, says Medicare needs reform [View all]Judi Lynn
(160,527 posts)32. Incredible he would even bring up the word, "Medicare," after his friend ripped it off.
Absolutely astonishing!
From Bush Family Value$
The Bush clan's family business
By Stephen Pizzo
| Tue Sep. 1, 1992 3:00 AM EDT :
Jeb and Miguel Recarey
With Miami awash in empty office space in 1986, it was no small event when bagged International Medical Centers as a key tenant for Padreda's HUD-financed building. IMC, which leased nearly all the space in Padreda's vacant building, was at the time one of the nation's fastest-growing health-maintenance organizations (HMO) and had become the largest recipient of federal Medicare funds.
IMC was run by Cuban-American Miguel Recarey, a character with a host of idiosyncrasies. He carried a 9-mm Heckler & Koch semiautomatic pistol under his suit coat and kept a small arsenal of AR-15 and Uzi assault rifles at his Miami estate, where his bedroom was protected by bullet-proof windows and a steel door. It apparently wasn't his enemies Recarey feared so much as his friends. He had a long-standing relationship with Miami Mafia godfather Santo Trafficante, Jr., and had participated in the illfated, CIA-inspired mob assassination plot against Fidel Castro in the early 1960s. (Associates of Recarey add that Trafficante was the money behind Recarey's business ventures.)
Recarey's brother, Jorge, also had ties to the CIA. So it was no surprise that IMC crawled with former spooks. Employee résumés were studded with references to the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the Cuban Intelligence agency; there was even a fellow who claimed to have been a KGB agent, An agent with the U.S. Office of Labor Racketeering in Miami would later describe IMC as a company in which "a criminal enterprise interfaced with intelligence operations."
Recarey also surrounded himself with those who could influence the political system. He hired Jeb Bush as IMC's "real-estate consultant." Though Jeb would never close a single real-estate deal, his contract called for him to earn up to $250,000 (he actually received $75,000). Jeb's real value to Recarey was not in real estate but in his help in facilitating the largest HMO Medicare fraud in U.S. history.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/1992/09/bush-family-value
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How about a real national healthcare system Jeb? Huh? We need Medicare for EVERYBODY.
YOHABLO
Jul 2015
#6
The fiscally responsible thing to do, then, is to raise taxes on your rich buddies to get out of
jtuck004
Jul 2015
#7
That was the projected combined SS and Medicare gap if you projected the programs into eternity
Recursion
Jul 2015
#41
Incredible he would even bring up the word, "Medicare," after his friend ripped it off.
Judi Lynn
Jul 2015
#32
How many misspeaks/passes does Jeb get? He clearly is not up to speaking in these times.
TheNutcracker
Jul 2015
#38