I’m linking to a long story in the Tampa Bay Times here. It is worth the time to read it, but this stuck out for me: During Rick Scott’s eight years as governor, a time in which the health care entrepreneur waged constant war against the public-hospital system in favor of mergers, acquisitions and private care, he participated in a drastic downward curve in funding for what had been identified in 2005 as a real threat for various levels of epidemics, even as the Florida population was ticking on a drastic upward curve.
It over-simplifies to simply blame him. However, it has been his policy to remove anything other than market considerations to health care in Florida. It is his version of a branch of tuorism.