Howard Dean health care town hall

Killing health care reform ..... (4.00 / 1)

Killing health care reform has always been easier than creating consensus (especially if you're willing to demagogue the issue with "death panels").  But amid all the screaming, here's a point that adds important contextual ballast: Americans don't really think their health care is so hot. People wonder who is behind the town hall riots when anyone discusses health care reform, or Obamacare - the answer is Conservatives for Patients' Rights. Conservatives for Patients Rights, or the CPR, is headed by one Rick Scott - who isn't a doctor - but used to be the CEO of a hospital, and under his watch, his medical administration defrauded Medicare of $1.7 billion through a practice called upcoding, wherein a Medicare patient gets treated, but Medicare is billed for additional tests that never took place.  (That's fraud.) Realistically, Conservatives for Patients Rights  and Mr. Scott will never need short term loans, and the only reason why they oppose the bill is that they want the money from the program for themselves.

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by: AlinaP @ Sat Aug 15, 2009 at 06:34:00 AM UTC