"I SHOULD BE IN JAIL"

                                                                 "HI I'M RICK SCOTT, YOUR NEW GOVERNOR OF FLORIDA"

"I MADE TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TESTING PEOPLE FOR DRUGS. NOW THAT I HAVE BOUGHT MYSELF THE GOVERNORSHIP WITH MY IMMENSE WEALTH. I PLAN TO GET A LOT RICHER BY PROCLAIMING THAT ALL STATE EMPLOYEES BE DRUG TESTED.THIS WILL GIVE MY COMPANY 170,000 NEW CUSTOMERS WHETHER THEY LIKE IT OR NOT. I WILL MAKE EVEN MORE MILLIONS TO INSURE THAT I CAN BUY A SECOND TERM AS YOUR HONORABLE GOVERNOR". OH, BY THE WAY, MY COMPANY DEFRAUDED THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OUT OF BILLIONS AND BILLIONS OF MEDICARE MONEY, BUT BEING THE SLIPPERY ELL THAT I AM I GOT AWAY "SCOTT" FREE! SO,ROLL UP YOUR SLEEVE, PEE IN THE CUP,AND ENJOY YOUR NEW GOVERNOR.

                                                               

Gov. Rick Scott’s Drug Testing Policy Stirs Suspicion Scott surprised state employees Tuesday by issuing his executive order for mandatory drug testing of all prospective hires, and random drug testing of current employees, in agencies whose directors he appoints. In the same announcement, he praised the Florida Legislature for its plans to require all welfare applicants to undergo drug testing as well.

The Medicaid bill that Scott is now pushing would expand the pilot privatization program to the entire state of Florida, offering Solantic a huge new business opportunity."This is a conflict of interest that raises a serious ethical issue," says Marc Rodwin, a medical ethics professor at Suffolk University Law School in Boston. "The public should be thinking and worrying about this."
Scott’s newest scheme, which will help him turn a profit from his $70 million investment in becoming a one-term Florida governor, would be genius if it weren’t so darned evil. Howard Simon, ACLU executive director, said in a statement Tuesday, “The state of Florida cannot force people to surrender their constitutional rights in order to work for the state. People have a right to be left alone. “Coming from a Governor who promised to protect our freedoms by limiting the intrusive reach of government into our personal lives, this massive expansion of government power at the expense of basic rights is stunning and exposes the state to serious future legal liability.”Just six days before Rick Scott announced his bid for governor, he was deposed in a case that alleged his healthcare company Solantic had broken Florida law by filing false medical licensing information with the state. But what Scott said April 7 might never be known to the public.Within a month, Rick Scott settled the 2-year-old case and signed a confidentiality agreement with Dr. P. Mark Glencross, who claimed his medical license was misused by the Governor"s chain of walk-in clinics.

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Less than two months into the job, Gov. Rick Scott is already facing a proposed bill that would allow Florida voters to recall him. Rick Scott came into the governor’s office without having ever governed. Not even a term on a school board. He never even had to get folks to reach consensus in a precinct.Scott’s main qualification to be governor was that he was CEO of an HMO found guilty of the worst case of Medicare fraud in U.S. history.Scott campaigned against the hiring of state lobbyists, then hired state lobbyists.  The difference, he explained, was that these were his lobbyists.  Scott won by one percentage point. Less than 62,000 votes gave him the keys to the mansion. And that sliver of a margin came after spending $73 million of his personal fortune, avoiding the press and opponents until the very end of the campaign, and relying on his mother and wife to be his political face during the campaign.Last week, Rep.Kriseman introduced a bill that would allow the recall of state officials.HB 787 should be automatic, considering the legislature is controlled by Republicans, who often tout accountability as a cornerstone of their party.
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Rick Scott,  Ran A Company Involved In The Nation's Largest Medicare Fraud Case
It was and still is the biggest Medicare fraud case in U.S. history and ended with the hospital giant Columbia/HCA paying a record $1.7 billion in fines, penalties and damages.Rick Scott was co-founder and CEO of Columbia/HCA in the 1990s, when the FBI launched a massive, multi-state investigation that led to the company pleading guilty to criminal charges of overbilling the government. READ ENTIRE ARTICLE