Questions Raised About Critic of Obama Health Care Plan
Richard Scott is spending $5 million of his own money to campaign against President Obama's health care overhaul efforts. Meanwhile, liberal groups are defending the administration's health care plan and publicizing more about Scott's background, including the fact that he was ousted from Columbia/HCA by his own board of directors in 1997 amid one of the country's largest health care fraud scandals.
- "Health Critic Brings a Past and a Wallet" (Rutenberg, New York Times, 4/2).