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motherjones: VIP State Health Care Exposed, or “GOP Tea Party Hypocrisy of the Day” Last year, political neophyte Rick Scott spent $73 million of his own money to bring the tea party’s anti-government, pro-privatization agenda to the Florida governor’s office. Today, the former executive pays just $30 a month for health care—and lets taxpayers cover the rest… Scott and his dependents pay one-fifth what a janitor in the state Capitol pays for health insurance… and less than 3 percent of what a retired state trooper pays for life-saving coverage. Here’s how he does it. Zoom

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VIP State Health Care Exposed, or “GOP Tea Party Hypocrisy of the Day”

Last year, political neophyte Rick Scott spent $73 million of his own money to bring the tea party’s anti-government, pro-privatization agenda to the Florida governor’s office. Today, the former executive pays just $30 a month for health care—and lets taxpayers cover the rest…

Scott and his dependents pay one-fifth what a janitor in the state Capitol pays for health insurance… and less than 3 percent of what a retired state trooper pays for life-saving coverage.

Here’s how he does it.

via blueguitar
Posted on Sunday, September 11 2011.
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    VIP State Health Care Exposed, or “GOP Tea Party Hypocrisy of the Day”...Last year,...
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    welfare for the rich - the most needy of the needy!
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    he could have just used the 73 million to give care to people who need it, and cut the middleman. it’s not like the poor...
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    Oh how I hate Rick Scott. He somehow managed to make this god forsaken state more unbearable.
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  36. postnforget said: I just don´t get how this happens. How can people like him think its ok for things to be different just for themselves and just forget about the masses.
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    This gets me so pissed it’s not even funny. What...hypocritical sack
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    This is disgusting.
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    Last year, political neophyte Rick Scott spent $73 million of his own money to bring the tea party’s anti-government,...
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    this really should piss a lot of people off… but somehow i don’t see it moving far beyond motherjones.
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    I hate this man.
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