Rick Scott Demands More Cuts to Medicaid, Which His Company Allegedly Scammed [View all]

Scott proposes slashing $313 billion more from Medicaid, a safety-net program his hospital company was accused of fraudulently billing.

Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), who’s famous for his former hospital company’s record-setting Medicare fraud settlements, is currently leading an effort to make Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” even more painful for America’s poor.

The legislation already cuts $930 billion from Medicaid, the nation’s government health insurance program for low-income and disabled Americans, and would eliminate coverage for millions. Scott’s amendment, expected to get a vote Monday, would take away another $313 billion in state Medicaid funds and force hundreds of thousands of additional people, at least, off the program.

Scott has framed his proposed Medicaid cuts as necessary to preserve the program “for those who truly need it” — and not “able-bodied” adults. “If you don’t want to work, you’re the one who decided you don’t want health care,” he recently said on Fox News. He’s suggested Democrats are using tax dollars to “give illegal aliens Medicaid benefits,” even though undocumented immigrants are not eligible for Medicaid, claiming that blue states want to “exploit this safety net.”

Read more at: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/rick-scott-medicaid-scam-trump-big-beautiful-bill-1235375383/

How in hell is this guy in the Senate? He should be in prison.