GEORGE M SUAREZ EDITORIAL COMMENT

Bill McCollum has a plan. Rick Scott has a motto: "let's get to work???" What are we getting to work on?" Rick, do you have a plan, proposal, anything??? Maybe we will go with your skills and talent in the adventures of health care fraud...oh, not again. Yep, Rick says: "let's get to work." God knows you don't have any on the job work experience other than insurance fraud. I understand, I am a doctor. But I don't expect you to understand any of that. You are good at what you do and did...cheat , lie and self- benefit monetarily.
Hey, do you have problems sleeping at night??? Hum? I sleep well knowing that in over 30 years I have cared for patients without cheat, lie or self benefit . I have no issues. I love what I do.Do you love what you do/did? I was never employed by HCA to have done what you did---paid 1.7 billion in insurance fraud. You walked away with 300 million in bonus, and now you want to be elected governor of Florida??? Please, someone tell me this a joke... Please help us understand??? Vote for Rick Scott on a promise of "let's get started?" What are we getting started on??? Don't think so...........................
George M. Suarez, M.D.

McCollum on Healthcare

Another great measure in the right direction by Bill McCollum for governor. The opponents? Well they have no established agenda, public service record or accountability- other than self serving. They are the super millionaires and billionaires. They are too busy on trying to figure out on how to buy our votes...Question for Rick Scott. Other than"let's get to work" campaign slogan? What do you propose we get to work on, and where do we start? Come on Rick, talk to me. I am a doctor and I know how you work. Bribe me, tease me, sing me a song and a dance, buy my vote- NOT. Insurance fraud cost the average American 40 cents on the dollar in premium. As a physician, more important than insurance fraud is your callous behavior on your part as CEO of HCA toward the sick and needy. You give a new definition to "shame and shame on you."


We know what Rick Scott is capable of doing... without concern or conscious...the greatest insurance fraud in history is far less criminal than what he did in taking advantage of the sick and needy. But please , tell us what is Rick Scott's goal in being elected governor of Florida when he refers to your : "let's get to work" campaign slogan?

George M. Suarez, M.D.

DR. SUAREZ WOULD LIKE TO SHARE

Everyone concentrates on the problems we're having in Our Country lately: Illegal immigration, hurricane recovery, alligators attacking people in Florida . . . . Not me -- I concentrate on solutions for the problems -- it's a win-win situation. * Dig a moat the length of the Mexican border. * Send the dirt to New Orleans to raise the level of the levees. * Put the Florida alligators in the moat along the Mexican border.

Any other problems you would like for me to solve today? Think about this: 1. Cows 2. The Constitution 3. The Ten Commandments

COWS
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that during the mad cow epidemic our government could track a single cow, born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall where she slept in the state of Washington? And, they tracked her calves to their stalls. But they are unable to locate 11 million illegal aliens wandering around our country. Maybe we should give each of them a cow.

THE CONSTITUTION
They keep talking about drafting a Constitution for Iraq ...why don't we just give them ours? It was written by a lot of really smart guys, it has worked for over 200 years, and we're not using it anymore.

THE 10 COMMANDMENTS
The real reason that we can't have the Ten Commandments posted in a courthouse is this -- you cannot post 'Thou Shalt Not Steal' 'Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery' and 'Thou Shall Not Lie' in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians, it creates a hostile work environment.

Also, think about this ... If you don't want to forward this for fear of offending someone -- YOU ARE PART OF THE PROBLEM!



DEAR READER,
AFTER THE COMMENTS ABOVE, I HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS FLORIDA'S GOVERNOR RACE WITH LARRY THE CABLE GUY. HERE ARE HIS COMMENTS...
...THE WORDS OF WISDOM FROM LARRY THE CABLE GUY ON FLORIDA'S RACE FOR GOVERNOR,,, "WE NEED LESS GOVERNMENT, AND WITH MORE PRACTICAL SENSE, ACCOUNTABILITY AND EXPERIENCE. WE NEED LESS CORRUPTION. WE DON'T WANT IT IN THE GOVERNOR'S MANSION. IN FACT, MOVE IT OUT OF FLORIDA ALTOGETHER. WE DON'T NEED SUPER MILLIONAIRES AND BILLIONAIRES AS GOVERNOR OF FLORIDA THAT HAVE NO POLITICAL EXPERIENCE, NOR PUBLIC SERVICE ACCOUNTABILITY. WE KNOW THEIR ACCOUNTABILITY AND THEIR CORRUPT PAST AND HOW THEY MADE THEIR MONEY."
"MAYBE WE SHOULD SEND ALL THEM MILLIONAIRES AND BILLIONAIRES TO NEW ORLEANS TO RAISE THE LEVEL OF THE LEVEES... THEIR LACK OF MORAL CHARACTER AND SCRUPLES ALSO QUALIFIES THEM TO REPLACE THE IDEA OF ALLIGATORS IN THE MOAT ALONG THE MEXICAN BORDER...PERSONALLY, I TRUST THE FLORIDA ALLIGATORS MORE THAN I TRUST RICK SCOTT. MAYBE SCOTT MAY WANT TO SPEND SOME OF HIS CORRUPT DOLLARS PROTECTING THE FLORIDA COAST FROM THE BP OIL SPILL- NOW THAT WOULD BE A GREAT GESTURE OF SHOWING HOW MUCH HE REALLY CARES ABOUT FLORIDA."
"I WOULD HATE TO HAVE RICK SCOTT RUN OUR STATE LIKE HE DID AS CEO OF HCA. (HOSPITAL CORPORATION OF AMERICA ---WE REFER TO IT AS: HEALTHCARE CORRUPTION OF AMERICA)...FRAUD, LIES AND CHEATING. DID I MENTION THAT HCA IS A HOSPITAL COMPANY, TAKING CARE OF SICK, HELPLESS AND NEEDY PATIENTS. THIS GUY, SCOTT IS LIKE THE GREATEST PREDITOR OF ALL TIMES. TAKING ADVANTAGE OF THE SICK AND COMMIITING HEALTH CARE FRAUD FOR SELF GAIN. WELL IT WAS ALSO THE GREATEST HEALTH FRAUD OF ALL TIME. THIS GUY DOES THINGS BIG. I HERE HE SPENDING TONS OF HIS OWN MONEY IN AN EFFORT TO BUY HIS WAY INTO THE GOVERNOR'S ELECTION."
REGARDS, AND GOD'S SPEED TO ALL FLORIDIANS,
LARRY, THE CABLE GUY.
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RESPONSE TO LARRY...
THANKS LARRY,
BUT IT'S ALL PUBLIC RECORD. THE FRAUD COST 1.7 BILLION IN FINES TO HCA. SCOTT GOT 300 MILLION DOLLARS BONUS. BUT DO WE REALLY KNOW WHAT IT COST IN COMPROMISE OF QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE, HUMAN LIFE'S AND SUFFERING? THIS IS THE GUY THAT ADVERTISES ON T.V.: "NOW LET'S GET TO WORK." I AM WONDERING WHAT HE REALLY MEANS BY THAT? MORE LIES, FRAUD AND CHEATING? SCARRY? YOU BET." THE COMMENT ABOUT THE 10 COMMANDMENTS ARE ALL ABOUT RICK SCOTT..."THOU SHALL NOT STEAL, AND THOU SHALL NOT LIE." HE DID AND HE WILL. I AGREE WITH LARRY THE CABLE GUY, MY COLLEAGUES AND I ALSO REFER TO HCA AS; "HEALTHCARE CORRUPTION OF AMERICA." THEIR FORMER CEO IS RICK SCOTT. IS THAT THE GUY WE WANT TO BE FLORIDA'S NEXT GOVERNOR?
JUST WHEN WE THOUGHT FLORIDA GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES SCOTT AND GREEN HAD NO VALUE, LARRY THE CABLE GUY FIGURED OUT WHERE THEY COULD SERVE BEST WITH THEIR BACKGROUND AND TALENT... ALLIGATORS AND FILLING LEVEES.
THANKS LARRY FOR COMING THROUGH FOR US FLORIDIANS AGAIN. AND YOU ARE RIGHT , BILL MCCOLLUM IS THE BEST CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR OF FLORIDA. HE HAS OVER 30 YEARS OF PUBLIC SERVICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY. THERE WILL BE NO SURPRISES WITH MCCOLLUM.
REGARDS,
GEORGE M. SUAREZ, M.D.
PS: THE FACT THAT THE FLORIDA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION HAS UNANIMOUSLY ENDORSED BILL MCCOLLUM FOR GOVERNOR OF FLORIDA SPEAKS FOR ITSELF ON HOW DOCTORS FEEL ABOUT WHO SHOULD BE OUR NEXT GOVERNOR.
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POSTED MONDAY, JULY 19, 2010

Dear Matt

Today at The Scripps Research Institute in Palm Beach County, Bill McCollum released his Education Plan, comprised of reform-minded solutions to ensure our children receive a 21st century education. Dramatically improving our education system will ensure Florida’s children can compete with their peers across the country and lessen future generations’ dependence on costly government services. Bill will implement merit pay to reward good teachers, phase out tenure and give parents more choices – measures that will create world-class schools for the Sunshine State.

Recently, Bill released his Economic Plan that is designed to spur economic growth while curbing government waste. These conservative policy initiatives, along with Bill’s Transportation Plan and upcoming Health and Energy plans, can only be enacted with your help!

Our fundraising quarter ends TONIGHT at MIDNIGHT, July 16th! Bill needs your help to enact these plans and bring prosperity back to Florida.

PLEASE support our campaign with a contribution of $10, $25, $100 or other amount as we work to make Florida a better place for our children and grandchildren.

You can visit our website to make your contribution.

Thank you for your efforts. Let’s make this a great quarter!

Carrie O’Rourke
Finance Director

POST BY DR. GEORGE SUAREZ

Please help support Bill McCollum for governor of Florida. He is the best qualified candidate, and the most honest candidate.



George M. Suarez, M.D.







MEDIA ADVISORY

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JULY 16, 2010

CONTACT: Kristy Campbell
850-241-1885
kristy@billmccollum.com

BILL MCCOLLUM TO CAMPAIGN IN SOUTH FLORIDA
Tallahassee, FL – On Saturday, July 17, Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill McCollum will make several campaign stops in South Florida, hitting both the west and east coasts.
The following events will be open to the media.
Saturday, July 17, 2010:
8:00 a.m. EDT
Bill McCollum Addresses the Lee County Republican Executive Committee
Edison State College, Building S
8099 College Parkway
Fort Myers, FL 33919
11:00 a.m. EDT
Bill McCollum Attends the Collier County Republican Executive Committee Headquarters Grand Opening
2500 N. Tamiami Trail
Naples, FL 34103
2:00 p.m. EDT
Bill McCollum Addresses the Palm Beach County 4th Biennial Candidate Jamboree
South County Civic Center
16700 Jog Road
Delray Beach, FL 33446
7:00 p.m. EDT
Bill McCollum Addresses the Naples Council for Constitutional Principles and the Naples Tea Party
VFW Hall
800 Neffs Way
Naples, FL‎ 34119
For more information, campaign news, and updates, visit www.BillMcCollum.com.
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COMMENTS FROM MATT

Dear George,
The stakes in August’s Republican primary could not be higher. Florida faces a multitude of challenges, including a major jobs shortage, a budget crisis, and a need for a strong conservative leader in the Governor’s Mansion.
On one hand, Florida Republicans can elect Bill McCollum – leading our nation’s legal efforts to repeal President Obama’s health care laws, fighting for meaningful litigation reform to ease Florida’s doctor shortage and lower healthcare costs and working to implement an economic plan that will create 500,000 new jobs over six years.
As a Congressman and Attorney General, Florida’s healthcare community has had no better friend than Bill McCollum. His record on cutting government red tape and ending frivolous lawsuits prompted one of Florida’s most prominent trial lawyers to call Bill “the trial lawyers’ worst nightmare.”
On the other hand, Florida Republicans can put their hopes for our future in disgraced former Columbia CEO Rick Scott, who ran the company as it systematically defrauded the government in the largest Medicare fraud scheme in American history. Using the millions he made from defrauding taxpayers, Rick Scott has taken to the airwaves to mislead Floridians about his record.
As the campaign continues, we learn more about Rick Scott’s questionable background as a healthcare CEO. Here are the facts about Rick Scott’s tenure as Columbia CEO:
· While Rick Scott was CEO of Columbia the company would purchase inferior equipment to cut cost that could hinder doctors abilities to perform their duties:
o “Surgical gloves were thinner and more likely to break, alcohol sponges were smaller, and the valve on new chest drainage tubes substituted by Columbia did not indicate whether the device was turned on or off” (allnurses.com)

o “’Gloves rip easily,’ complained hospital workers in Florida. In California, some nurses protested “filthy conditions” and being “stretched to the limit as the hospital slashed the ratio of nurses to patients” “I sometimes had to watch 72 patients heart monitors at a time,” one nurse reported. “I was told, either do it, or there’s the door.” In Indianapolis nurses complained to state authorities that babies in the neonatal unit were left unattended for as long as three hours.” (healthbeatblog.com: Who is Richard Scott and why is he saying these things about healthcare reform?)


· Richard Scott and Columbia attempted to bribe doctors:
o In 1997, in El Paso, Texas, a Federal jury found that Columbia, “personally” authorized by Rick Scott, had secretly paid doctor Ambrose Aboud $152,000 for "outstanding expenses" that he had not incurred as part of an unlawful conspiracy to defraud the business partner. (Kurt Eichenwald, New York Times: A Health Care Giant's Secret Payments Taint a Texas Deal, March 29, 1997)

o Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation wrote in a memorandum that executives from hospitals that Columbia was attempting to buy reported that Columbia offered them “perquisites and promises of jobs” and other inducements as bribes to affect their decisions on whether to sell to Columbia. This includes John Geanes, a former administrator of South Miami Hospital who stated before a grand jury that he was approached by several Columbia officials including Rick Scott.( NEW YORK TIMES: HEALTH CARE'S GIANT: Powerhouse Under Scrutiny -- A special report.; Biggest Hospital Operator Attracts Federal Inquiries, March 28, 1997, by Martin Gottlieb, Kurt Eichenwald and Josh Barbanel)

· Rick Scott and Columbia cut doctors that were not bringing in maximum profit, at the expense of patient care
o “The profit pressure that left Lawrence County, which is 71 miles southwest of Nashville, without an obstetrician also helped make Columbia the target of federal investigators. And it began affecting patient care immediately after Columbia's 1994 takeover of Hospital Corp. of America, current and former hospital employees say.”

o “Critics point to one incident in 1994, when Columbia cut back on services at a money-losing hospital in Destin, Fla. A man injured in a boating accident was left pleading from his stretcher for emergency room staff to treat him, as yellow tape blocked entry to the ER door.” (John Hendren, Hospital chain's profits took toll on patient care, employees say” John Hendren, AP, Hospital chain's profits took toll on patient care, employees say, 9/7/1997)

With the Florida Medical Association’s recent announcement to unanimously endorse Attorney General Bill McCollum for Governor, we feel the momentum heading into August is on our side. But to ensure it remains that way and to keep Rick Scott and his fraudulent business tactics out of the Governor’s Office, we need your support. Your maximum donation of $500 per person of $1,000 per household will ensure Florida’s medical community will have a strong advocate in the Governor’s Mansion and help us educate Florida Republicans about Rick Scott’s real record as CEO of Columbia. To keep up with Rick Scott’s massive spending, we need your support.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
JULY 15, 2010

CONTACT: Kristy Campbell
850-241-1885
kristy@billmccollum.com

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: ST. PETERSBURG TIMES: Rick Scott’s Medicare fraud explanations are unsatisfactory

“Private wealth and public accountability”
St. Petersburg Times
Editorial
July 15, 2010
“Republican candidate for governor Rick Scott has shown in the past week he's not above exploiting his role as a hospital executive in a family's private medical issue to get votes — yet he still refuses to candidly answer questions about how his company ultimately paid a $1.7 billion fine for Medicare fraud. Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jeff Greene likes to tout his experience as a ‘proven job creator’ as he accumulated a onetime $1.3 billion business empire — yet he still hasn't disclosed information on his finances that would give voters more time to independently evaluate his record. Private business executives have to recognize that running for public office requires more transparency, particularly when their opponents have long public records.
“Scott and Greene have earned vast sums of money in the private sector, but they are unknown and untested politically. They have become competitive in their respective races largely because they have spent millions of their own money on television ads and face weak candidates in primary elections. At least the public records are clear for Attorney General Bill McCollum, who faces Scott in the Republican primary for governor, and U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek of Miami, who faces Greene in the Democratic Senate primary. Scott and Greene are far less transparent and unwilling to go beyond sound bites in describing their track records.
“Scott's posturing is particularly galling as he's been exploiting a family's medical crisis on the campaign trail to prove he is a ‘prolife leader.’ As CEO of Columbia/HCA he continued to fight a lawsuit filed by a Texas couple whose wishes for the treatment of their premature infant daughter were ignored. And his campaign and a third-party committee have spent at least $20 million on television ads, including one that references the fine his hospital company paid after a federal investigation for Medicare fraud. The ad includes Scott saying he is going to give the ‘unvarnished truth’ and that he ‘learned’ from the experience. He notes he was never interviewed by investigators or charged in the case.
“But unvarnished truth apparently has its limits. After the Miami Herald found at least one of Columbia/HCA's illegal practices — giving kickbacks to doctors who referred patients to the company's hospitals — traced back to the original Texas hospitals Scott ran, his campaign declined interview requests. It ultimately issued another oblique and wholly unsatisfactory statement. What lessons did Scott learn? What did he know? Scott won't elaborate. As governor would he insist on giving written statements rather than candid responses to the public?
“Then there is billionaire Greene, who sought a one-month delay June 18 in filing financial disclosure papers required under state election law. Greene claimed his attorney ‘hasn't been able to get it in yet.’ That Greene — who has the cash to hire a posse of professionals — didn't think it was a priority is disconcerting at best. Now it appears he's intent on making voters wait as long as possible by running out the clock.
“With less than six weeks before the Aug. 24 primary, and many ballots already in the mail, time is running short for Scott and Greene to open up to voters about their track records in private business. But they are going to have to offer more than slick television commercials or campaign stump speeches. If they are not comfortable with public disclosure of their private business dealings, they should not be running for public office.”
To view this piece, please visit the St. Petersburg Times online at http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/editorials/article1108979.ece. For more information, campaign news, and updates, visit www.BillMcCollum.com.