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How Bad is Inflation? / Dean Baker

This Is Hell!

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The Name Change Was Counter Intuitive, Since It Was Named After Florida Republican Sen. Rick Scott

In 19 87, florida republican senator rick scott was on his way to becoming a big deal in the movement of private buy up of health care services. Ten years later he had become the ceo of the hospital corporation of america - one of the first private hospital companies in the legendary empire known as the united states of America. He resigned after only four months due to a federal investigation into medicare and medicade fraud at the company. The fraud was so fantastically huge that h c a was eventually forced to pay the government one point seven billion dollars in criminal fines, penalties, civil damages and other settlements. Many of the fraudulent actions the d o j found had had

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