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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-13-11 12:03 PM
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Gov. Rick Scott (R-Florida) pays 99 cents a day for health-care insurance.
I know this has been addressed before, but Mother Jones has an excellent article on this TeaBagging hypocrite:

Rick Scott Pays $360 a Year for State Health Insurance

Florida's anti-Obamacare governor and his tea party allies in the Legislature pay less for state-funded health insurance than janitors, cops, or teachers.

—By Adam Weinstein

Thu Aug. 11, 2011 3:00 AM PDT
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.

The governor, a proud bearer of the Republican Party's deregulation standard, has spent his first half-year in office decrying government waste: He's laid off thousands of Sunshine State employees, slashed their benefits, turned down (most of) the federal government's health care dollars, and put extra financial pressure on Florida retirees and Medicaid recipients. But 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.

When asked about the double standard, a spokesman for Scott declined to comment, calling his family's cheap state coverage "private matters."


--much more--
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/08/rick-scott-pays-360-year-state-health-insurance

99 cents? That's a small coffee at McDonald's.

Oh, and in a leap year, he pays 98 cents a day...
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flamingdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-13-11 12:16 PM
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1. He needs to go to the slammer for fraud
and health care is free there!
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True Blue Democrat Donating Member (80 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-13-11 12:19 PM
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2. Then he should get that 99c a day kind of service
That means a old codger who barely remembers his medicine and graduated from Ma's Surgerical and Fish Bait Shop down the road only doing one thing - poking Scott with a very dilipdated and rusty dental mirror. Then prescribing opossum paregoric that doesn't do shit.


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