Rick Scott is the latest Republican Governor to announce acceptance of the Medicare expansion offered through President Obama's Affordable Care Act, and his Republican cohorts are NOT happy Obamacare's number one opponent has cracked. Watch it.
Bob he looks like that skinhead raceist sheriff guy out of Arizona, the one McCain was saying "build the dang fence" to.
donnajoy
2/25/2013 6:09:03 AM
We can never forget two key factors: 1.) Rick Scott is a Koch brothers' puppet. 2.) Rick Scott will do anything to make himself look better and make more money.
Bob Bobonde, Minto ND.
2/24/2013 7:10:02 PM
That guys picture looks like something out of a freak show.
Linda S Houston
2/23/2013 6:24:42 PM
Good point Fargo about the Medical Supply companies. Many of them are run by doctors too. Or at least they have doctors on the board of directors. I swear I see so many people on those scooters that look like their only medical problem is that they are too overweight and would rather ride those things than walk, also they get to park in all the handicapped spaces. I do not mean to in any way criticize those who have a real need for the machines, but I live in a Seniors community and have seen many seniors who are trying to walk that really should be in one of those things. And many who ride one then get off of it and walk to their cars and drive.
All they have to do is bill the insurance companies or Medicaid/Medicare. And they do alot of overcharging too.
Mr. Fargo
2/23/2013 2:20:01 PM
Conservative idiots would rather pay for uninsured expensive non-emergency health care through the emergency room courtesy of your tax dollars than more economically through the Affordable Care Act...............by insuring people & expanding Medicaid........then they want you to believe that raising the eligibility age for Medicare will some how save money too?????...........in my opinion Medicare is an economical way to provide health care to the elderly just as long as corporations like the Scooter Store isn't ripping us off............but conservatives are against that too, according to them cutting more than $700 billion waste fraud & abuse out of Medicare is a bad thing............they think it is just better to for the Government to get out of the way & allow corporations to rip us off!!!!!!!!
Mr. Fargo
2/23/2013 2:12:47 PM
Simple Arithmetic:
This is what the Radical Republicans don't get or understand............Before the Affordable Care Act people "those who had no health insurance" would go through the emergency room for non-emergency health care "the most expensive way"............guess what? tax dollars paid those bills..........the hospitals would then get money from a Government fund to compensate them for those losses in revenue courtesy of your tax dollars.................The Affordable Care Act closes that fund & much more economically expands Medicare & Insures the Uninsured...........Rick Scott now is faced with pressure from Hospitals & etc because that fund will be gone & without Medicaid expansion they would go belly up because your tax dollars would not be paying for those expensive unpaid emergency room health care visits..............see the Affordable Care Act was upheld by the Supreme Court, so Rick Scott's bluff was running out of time & he eventually had to come down to reality & cave-in.......................It is much more economical to have our tax dollars go toward insuring the uninsured & expanding Medicaid than paying hospitals for lost revenue for non-emergency visits through the emergency room...........conservatives are too stupid to do the math.........
Mr. Fargo
2/22/2013 6:33:34 PM
You are correct Linda............Did you hear about the FBI is investigating the Scooter Store for hundreds of millions is Medicare Fraud?.............they basically harassed doctors & medical facilities into fraudulently getting people who really didn't need a scooter or lift chair & etc one paid through Medicare..................Remember all the false commercials accusing Obama of Cutting Medicare............what he was really cutting was fraudulent claims & overpayment and not cutting benefits..............
Linda S Houston
2/22/2013 1:30:14 PM
People are slowly but surely realizing there is a reason it is called the Affordable Care Act. It will save the hospitals millions in unpaid bills from uninsured people that they are obligated to treat once they have been brought to the hospital.
Now if we could just get Big Pharma in line and all these other medical companies that are overcharging for everything.
One of the biggest problems with Medicaid and Medicare is the fraud and alot of it is committed by doctors!! Like the phony streetcorner pill pusher clinics in Florida. Why won't the government crack down and shut down these places and arrest and incarcerate the doctors running them?
Just like the banksters only we can call them the drugsters. Put some damned people in jail for God's sake, make examples of them and we can at least put a huge dent in the fraud.
We also need someone regulating Medicare for the price gouging. People are being overcharged to the tune of thousands, but many of them never even look at the bill.
My mother, God rest her soul, went over every hospital bill with a fine toothed comb. She would call them up if she saw charges for services that she did not get. We all pay the price as taxpayers if we don't shut these things down.
Mr. Fargo
2/22/2013 1:11:59 PM
LOL.............Rick Scott was always all talk & lies on the Affordable Care Act..........they all banked on the Supreme Court Striking down the Affordable Care Act & when it didn't go their way it left them scrambling...............it was just a matter of time that the Radical Republican Party would have to deal with reality and abandon their rhetoric of misinformation.............they were always bluffing & lying........it was always all talk/lies & fear-mongering........
Rob, Oregon
2/22/2013 11:15:40 AM
They all hate Big Government until they toss the money on the table.
