Posted by JM Ashby
Yes America, this is what you get when you elect a disgraced former chief healthcare executive which paid $1.7 billion in fines for defrauding Medicare as your governor to run the state "like a business."
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Gov. Rick Scott wants to repeal the state's yet-to-be-implemented prescription drug tracking law that's designed to crack down on "pill mills" supplying drug dealers and addicts who flock to Florida from states already operating such systems.
Scott spokesman Brian Hughes said Tuesday that the electronic monitoring delayed by contract challenges, may not be as effective as advocates claim. The governor also was worried it might infringe on patients' privacy, he said.
...Law enforcement officials say one reason Florida has become the nation's epicenter for prescription drug abuse is that most other states already have prescription monitoring systems.
So what is the alternative plan to combat Florida's legal-drug abuse problem? Lock more people up in prison of course.
...Hughes said that Scott, a former health care executive, supports Attorney General Pam Bondi's push for tougher criminal and civil penalties as "a more effective way to fight this."
So a former healthcare executive is for more pills and for more prisoners. Shocking! Did anyone tell Mister Teabagger Rick Scott that prisoners receive socialized medicine?