To: The Florida State House, The Florida State Senate, and Governor Ron DeSantis
GOVERNOR RICK SCOTT - PAY BACK TAXPAYER MONEY
FACT:
1- HCA paid massive fines for committing Medicare fraud.
Per http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2003/June/03_civ_386.htm
“Combined with today's separate administrative settlement with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), under which HCA will pay an additional $250 million to resolve overpayment claims arising from certain of its cost reporting practices, the government will have recovered $1.7 billion from HCA, by far the largest recovery ever reached by the government in a health care fraud investigation.”
2- Therefore HCA took in massive amounts of taxpayer money while commiting this fraud.
3- Therefore any distribution of this money was with money that actually belonged to taxpayers.
“Columbia/HCA’s board found him an unpleasant symbol of the problem and voted to oust Scott almost immediately after the scandal erupted in 1997, paying him a $9.88 million severance package, along with 10 million shares of stock worth up to $300 million at the time, to walk away.”
This is from: http://www.salon.com/2009/09/30/rick_scott_one/
So Governor Scott – when are you going to give this over $300 million that you pocketed from Medicare fraud back to the taxpayers?
1- HCA paid massive fines for committing Medicare fraud.
Per http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2003/June/03_civ_386.htm
“Combined with today's separate administrative settlement with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), under which HCA will pay an additional $250 million to resolve overpayment claims arising from certain of its cost reporting practices, the government will have recovered $1.7 billion from HCA, by far the largest recovery ever reached by the government in a health care fraud investigation.”
2- Therefore HCA took in massive amounts of taxpayer money while commiting this fraud.
3- Therefore any distribution of this money was with money that actually belonged to taxpayers.
“Columbia/HCA’s board found him an unpleasant symbol of the problem and voted to oust Scott almost immediately after the scandal erupted in 1997, paying him a $9.88 million severance package, along with 10 million shares of stock worth up to $300 million at the time, to walk away.”
This is from: http://www.salon.com/2009/09/30/rick_scott_one/
So Governor Scott – when are you going to give this over $300 million that you pocketed from Medicare fraud back to the taxpayers?
Why is this important?
This money was stolen from taxpayers by Medicare fraud. An honest individual with morals would give it back to the taxpayers.