Conservatives for Patients’ Rights
Just Ignore Rick Scott
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 decisions about the fate of the public [...]
GOP Health Care Plan: Stall
Republicans hope to hold out on health care until the fall, staving off a public plan.
Rick Scott Going on the Air Against Democratic Senators
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 surprising. Eight of them represent states carried [...]
Live from the GOP’s Anti-Obama Health Care Launch
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 Scott, the controversial multimillionaire who [...]
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