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Rick Scott Dances in the Endzone

By | 02.23.10 | 8:41 am

If the Democrats succeed in passing health care reform through some form of compromise and reconciliation, they’ll have been aided by the confidence of anti-reform forces who basically considered the battle won in January. In this video, Rick Scott of Conservatives for Patients Rights thanks supporters for, basically, More…

Just Ignore Rick Scott

By | 08.21.09 | 1:48 pm

Greg Sargent has the ad that Conservatives for Patients Rights, the anti-health care reform 527 run by notorious hospital industry fraudster Rick Scott, will be running during the president’s Massachusetts vacation.

It’s unclear, though, what can be gained by attacking Obama on the air in Martha’s Vineyard. The main

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GOP Health Care Plan: Stall

By | 07.21.09 | 6:00 am

The lengthy speech on health care that Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele delivered on Monday was short on details. Republicans, said Steele, wanted to address “runaway costs,” and had a few ideas on how to do that, such as posting the cost of treatments “openly on the Internet,” supporting More…

Rick Scott Going on the Air Against Democratic Senators

By | 06.25.09 | 2:13 pm

The health care multi-millionaire’s group, Conservatives for Patients’ Rights, is going on the air in 11 states, targeting 14 senators (12 Democrats and two Republicans) with pretty standard attacks on government waste and the threat of bureaucrats interfering in medical decisions.

The list of targets is a little bit More…

Live from the GOP’s Anti-Obama Health Care Launch

By | 06.24.09 | 12:21 pm

On Capitol Hill right now, Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform is moderating a bicameral “response” to President Obama’s health care push, which heads to ABC News for a TV special tonight. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) are promoting their own health care plans; Rick More…