Jeb Bush now paid Insurance Industry hack?

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Jeb Bush hammers Crist on insurance

The ex-governor tells insurance leaders he doesn't support his successor's policies.

In the nine months since he left office, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has kept silent on the issue of how the current governor and Legislature are handling what had become Bush's biggest challenge: the state's ongoing property insurance crisis.

That all changed this week.

And Bush, the two-term Republican, doesn't like what he sees.

Addressing insurance executives Monday as keynote speaker at the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies convention outside Dallas, Bush criticized Florida's latest efforts at insurance reform - specifically a January special session bill that doubled the state's catastrophe fund to $32-billion and allowed state-backed Citizens Property Insurance to directly compete with the private market.

That is a reversal of Bush's stance when, as governor, he focused on private market solutions, no expansion of the CAT Fund or Citizens, and a state-funded program to help homeowners make their houses more hurricane resistant.

Like other critics -- mostly in the insurance industry -- of the reforms of early 2007, Bush argued that expanding Florida's role in the property insurance market will put the state at considerable financial risk if Florida is hit by one or more major hurricanes.

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Isn't it amazing after Jeb Bush nearly privatized the entire state of Florida as governor he now reverses himself. Wonder why? Did he have a change of heart? Let's see.

'Jeb's Tenet stake'

Tenet Healthcare Corp. granted former Gov. Jeb Bush $260,000 worth of stock units. Bush, who was recently appointed to the board of the Dallas-based hospital company, received 34,667 stock units, which are convertible to shares of stock.

'Dead, fired attorneys’

Medicare fraud probe linked to White House: Senator McCaskill knew about dead attorneys before Senate Gonzales hearing'

"According to Medical Supply Chain CEO Samuel Lipari who is suing hospital supply company Novation LLC, Missouri Democratic Senator Claire C. McCaskill knew that seven U.S. attorneys — two assistants who turned up dead, three assistants who resigned or were fired and two U.S. attorneys who were also forced out—had something in common: all seven were investigating Medicare and Medicaid fraud in the United States healthcare system involving overcharging for hospital supplies and medical fees amounting to billions of dollars in fraud."

"Lipari’s suit against Novation has ties to the White House in that the President’s brother Jeb Bush joined the board of directors of Novation member Tenet Healthcare on April 12, 2007 and George W’s cousin’s company wrote software for hospital equipment global reference numbers, raising questions as to why Jeb Bush has become associated with a company involved in multiple lawsuits and fraud probes.

"President Bush’s first cousin Jonathan Bush is CEO of Athena Health in Watertown, Massachusetts, the developer of Novation’s “CodeRyte” software program that “runs on an algorithm built into the system,” which “can read the data entry, find any required associations and automatically contact on-staff coders who can read the work and determine the appropriate code.”

Is this someone we wanting to be taking advice from about the insurance industry/ I think not!