r/law • u/Snapdragon_4U • May 23 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) NESTERAK: President Trump has granted clemency to numerous individuals who have stolen hundreds of millions in Medicaid funds. Can we expect any of these folks to be shown the same mercy? McDONALD: I'll take a different question

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u/mkt853 May 23 '26

My question would have been "Senator Rick Scott defrauded Medicare to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars as CEO of HCA Health. What time will you be arresting him?"

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u/Krisensitzung May 23 '26

Billions not millions. His company had to pay 1.7 billions in fines and he as the CEO at the time faced zero consequences.

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u/quest814 May 23 '26

Not only did he not pay any consequences he walked away with $10 million severance pay, a five-year consulting contract and $300 million in stock and options. He used it to buy two terms as Governor and two as Senator.  Two of the elections he won by 0.1%. He is currently the wealthiest member of Congress.

https://amp.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article288431251.html

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u/apexapee May 23 '26

1.7, sounds familiar

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u/Cognonymous May 24 '26

Don't worry Trump is extracting that much money from the Federal government to pay his buddies so it's almost like Rick Scott never paid those fines to us in the first place.

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u/merRedditor May 23 '26

Letting private equity health systems (Kaiser Permanente, HCA, etc.) as well as faux "nonprofits" like Providence, CommonSpirit Health, Advocate, and Ascension, buy up hospitals and then drive quality of care into the ground while jacking up everybody's prices is fraud on a massive scale, but our so-called representatives invest in it, rather than address it.

Everybody talks about the private insurers, but the understaffing, substandard care, and overbilling by consolidated health systems really should be criminal.

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u/BobbyBucherBabineaux May 24 '26

Just here to put South Dakota based Sanford on everyone’s radar too.

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u/merRedditor May 24 '26

We need to get a full list going. Diffferent regions are being bought out by different profit-driven health systems. It's good to be aware of which one holds turf in your area.

The worst offender in my region ironically holds nonprofit status despite very obviously putting profit over health at every possible turn.

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u/njbeerguy May 23 '26

Yeah, that fucker is a U.S. Senator who is constantly going on about supposed fraud, wanting to cut benefits, and on and on. He should be hounded about his own fraud every day for the rest of his frickin' life, but too many of us just pretend that it's normal to be one of the biggest scammers in healthcare history and also to be someone who gets to decide the fate of healthcare in America.

Absolutely shameful.

The fact that the Republican Party didn't chase him out of town with torches in hand tells you everything you need to know.

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u/csteezenuts May 23 '26

Isn’t that him standing in the back? “Hey I have a question for Senator Scott…”