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Related: About this forumWhat Nashville health care leaders learned on a trip to Cuba
What Nashville health care leaders learned on a trip to Cuba
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What Nashville health care leaders learned on a trip to Cuba (Original Post)
Mika
Oct 2014
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Sienna86
(2,149 posts)1. Must have been enlightening for Bill Frist
Would love to read more about who went and what else they learned.
Judi Lynn
(160,525 posts)2. I hope they will really study the system, and didn't write their opinions before the trip!
It's hard to believe any Republican would go to Cuba without an ulterior motive!
If they have anything positive to say upon return, it should be interesting.
Bill Frist's own "success" in U.S. healthcare depended entirely upon this system working exactly as it does! Sad:
Exposing Senate Majority Leader Bill Frists Corruption
As recently as 2005, then Senate majority leader Bill Frist of Tennessee was a presumed front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination to succeed President Bush. Today hes not even in the Senate. A conflict of interest exposed by Consumer Watchdog drove him out of politics.
When Frist controlled the U.S. Senate in 2003 and 2004 as majority leader, he made a big mistake. At the time there was little chance that he or the Senate Ethics Committee would respond favorably to my consumer groups written concerns about his conflicts of interest with his familys business. But we created a record that years later undermined Frists power and helped to end his political career.
Frist, a doctor whose family controlled one of the nations largest hospital chains, was then backing a Senate bill to limit legal accountability for doctors and hospitals when they commit medical malpractice. We publicly demanded that Frist sell at least $25 million of stock he held in the Frist family company, HCA. HCA was one of Americas largest hospital companies and owner of HCI, the nations fifth biggest medical malpractice insurer. No one had ever heard of this issue before we put it on the map for the media and opinion leaders, but afterward it was closely tracked.
HCI, HCA and your entire family stand to profit directly from the passage of malpractice caps legislation, we wrote to Frist. Of course, Frist did not divest his stock, nor recuse himself from the medical malpractice vote. We got some press at the time, but, more importantly, the record we created came back to haunt Senator Frist two years later.
When Frist finally sold the stock in September 2005, he did it just before the stock price tumbled, suggesting his family had given him an insider tip. A lot of eyes were watching by then. Frist was subpoenaed by the Justice Department and the SEC in an insider trading investigation of his well-timed sale. The investigation was made public two days after we sent another letter calling for an inquiry to the SEC and U.S. attorney.
More:
http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/success-story/exposing-senate-majority-leader-bill-frist%E2%80%99s-corruption