Conservative crusader against health care reform has a shady past (even his allies are worried)

by Joe Sudbay (DC) on 4/02/2009 10:18:00 AM

A couple weeks ago, I did a post on Rick Scott, the face of a right wing group fighting health care reform. I linked to an excellent piece, "Healthcare Enemy No. 1" in The Nation by Chris Hayes, which exposed Scott's shady background noting:

Having Scott lead the charge against healthcare reform is like tapping Bernie Madoff to campaign against tighter securities regulation. You see, the for-profit hospital chain Scott helped found--the one he ran and built his entire reputation on--was discovered to be in the habit of defrauding the government out of hundreds of millions of dollars.