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    motherjones: VIP State Health Care Exposed, or “GOP Tea Party Hypocrisy of the Day” Last year, political neophyte Rick Scott spent $73 million of his own money to bring the tea party’s anti-government, pro-privatization agenda to the Florida governor’s office. Today, the former executive pays just $30 a month for health care—and lets taxpayers cover the rest… Scott and his dependents pay one-fifth what a janitor in the state Capitol pays for health insurance… and less than 3 percent of what a retired state trooper pays for life-saving coverage. Here’s how he does it. Also, at some point, he had $73 million to call his own.

    motherjones:

    VIP State Health Care Exposed, or “GOP Tea Party Hypocrisy of the Day”

    Last year, political neophyte Rick Scott spent $73 million of his own money to bring the tea party’s anti-government, pro-privatization agenda to the Florida governor’s office. Today, the former executive pays just $30 a month for health care—and lets taxpayers cover the rest…

    Scott and his dependents pay one-fifth what a janitor in the state Capitol pays for health insurance… and less than 3 percent of what a retired state trooper pays for life-saving coverage.

    Here’s how he does it.

    Also, at some point, he had $73 million to call his own.

    (Source: Mother Jones)