Scott was a businessman before he became the governor of Florida. He co-founded Columbia Hospital Corporation, which merged with Hospital Corporation of America in 1989. The combined company Columbia/HCA became the largest private-for-profit healthcare company in the United States. Here is the interesting part, Columbia/HCA committed “systemic” Medicare fraud under his watch. The Medicare fraud scandal led to his ouster from the company on 1997.
Many are asking; If Scott failed to fix Columbia/HCA, which committed the largest Medicare fraud in history, how can he fix Washington as a junior senator?
Rick Scott doesn’t care about senior citizens
Jon Bauman, the president of Social Security Works PAC, claimed that Scott doesn’t care about senior citizens. Bauman believes that Scott wants to destroy Social Security by privatizing it—a disaster for 1.7 million seniors in Florida.
Additionally, Bauman said Scott showed his lack of care for the elderly during Hurricane Irma. He noted that the governor deleted voicemails from a nursing home asking for help during the disaster. His inaction led to the deaths of 14 seniors in that nursing home.
