Do You Really Trust A Man Whose Company Stole $1.7 Million From Feds To Be Patients' Advocate?

Just as Rick Scott's so-called "Conservatives for Patients Rights" put out an ad attacking President Obama's healthcare plan, Scott himself came under more scrutiny in another segment on Rick Sanchez's television show on CNN.
Notice how Scott tries to weasel out of answering Sanchez's questions about the $1.7 million his hospital group had to pay in fines for activities that happened while he was heading the group.
Here's the clip:

Sanchez's Scott piece didn't go without notice. Wrote Jason Linkins in the Huffington Post:

On Friday, Rick Sanchez went after Conservatives For Patient's Rights, another one of these groups that likes to pretend to want "real reform" when what they really want is a big ol' dollop of status quo. Rick Scott, who heads up the organization, is a real piece of work, the kind of guy you cross the street to avoid. His Hospital Corporation of America bilked the government by fraudulently "upcoding" Medicare billing codes, and it ended up paying $1.7 billion in penalties for stealing from American taxpayers. You might also recall that when Health Care For America Now called Scott out in an advertisement, CPR and Scott manufactured a phony controversy that took me about five minutes to debunk. Scott has hobbies, too, among them "sitting on the board of a company used by Saudi Arabia and Iran to suppress Internet access." All you guys out there with green-tinted Twitter avatars should take note!

Trusting Rick Scott to be a leading spokesman for patients' needs and rights is like trusting Bernie Madoff to be a leading advocate of financial responsibility. As Rick The Thief and his crew travel to Martha's Vineyard to hound our president and falsely claim that his anti-reform position represents the will of the American people, I hope those AT Martha's Vineyard are ready to expose the real Rick Scott everywhere he goes.
Maybe that'll make him think twice before continuing to con the American people against their own interests and against real healthcare reform.

More Mainstream Media Outlets Wake Up To Lying Right-Wing Healthcare Attacks And Those Funding Them

I'm glad that some in the media are finally waking up to the barrage of lies and baseless personal attacks that have been made against President Obama's healthcare proposal.
As I was checking out Daily Kos this morning, I was happy to see a diary that explained how it's no longer just Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow that are exposing the right-wing lies and those who are propagating them in the mainstream media.
The article cited in the Daily Kos diary couldn't have been more direct:

Much of the money and strategy behind the so-called grassroots groups organizing opposition to the Democrats' health care plans comes from conservative political consultants, professional organizers and millionaires, some of whom hold financial stakes in the outcome.

From reading the rest of the McClatchy story, these folks fighting the Obama plan sure aren't the average folks that they're selling themselves as.
As a point of review, let's take just one of those mentioned as opponents of the Obama plan-- Rick Scott.
Here's the excellent Think Progress piece explaining who Rick Scott is:

And here's Rick Scott having problems giving straight-forward answers to the queries of CNN's Rick Sanchez:

There's still some time left before Congress reconvenes to consider the president's proposal, but as the time draws near, I'm glad to see so many fighting back against the right-wing lies and more folks in the mainstream media exposing the lies for what they are and those who are propagating them.