Health Care

Health-Reform Foe Runs Firm Serving Patients Who Would Benefit From Public Option

Zachary Roth | September 30, 2009, 9:57AM

Rick Scott, Conservatives for Patients Rights

Salon has a lengthy profile of Rick Scott, the head of Conservatives for Patients Rights and the public face of the anti-healthcare-reform movement.

At this point, Scott's track record as a zealous promoter of for-profit health-care -- including the fact that the company he founded paid an almost $2-billion fine for Medicare fraud -- has been well-documented. But Salon compellingly frames the central fact of Scott's role in the current debate over reform:

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