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International Business Times
International Business Times
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Taylor Odisho

GOP Senator Pestered About Medicare Fraud Scandal After Claiming Americans 'Decided' They Didn't Want Healthcare: 'Not Everyone Can Defraud Medicare'

Florida Sen. Rick Scott alleged Americans are defrauding Medicaid despite his previous company paying a historic fine for doing just that in 2002.

Florida Sen. Rick Scott claimed able-bodied Americans who choose not to work have "decided" they don't want healthcare, prompting widespread reminders online of the Medicare and Medicaid fraud scandal that occurred at Columbia/HCA under Scott's leadership.

During a Fox News interview Monday, Scott defended a House Republican bill that would slash at least $880 billion from Medicaid's budget over the next decade, potentially leaving an estimated 13 million Americans without insurance.

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