Apparently, he disagrees with Tom's premise that this is free market capitalism working to produce the best results for everybody.

>"Wheelers and dealers from the health sector have spent more than $134 million on lobbying in the first quarter of 2009 alone. And some are shelling out big bucks for a publicity blitz and ads attacking any health care reform that threatens to reduce the profits from sickness and disease. "

>The ads feature the chairman of Conservatives for Patients' Rights, Rick Scott, former deputy inspector general from the Department of Health and Human Services.
Scott took two hospitals in Texas and built them into the largest health care chain in the world, Columbia/HCA. In 1997, he was fired by the board of directors after Columbia/HCA was caught in a scheme that ripped off the Feds and state governments for hundreds of millions of dollars in bogus Medicare and Medicaid payments, the largest such fraud in history. The company had to cough up $1.7 billion dollars to get out of the mess.

Rick Scott got off and waltzed away with a $10 million severance deal and $300 million worth of stock."

And these are the cretans who will keep Tom's view of specialized healthcare away from those who need it <most.>