Conservatives for Patients Rights

Rick Scott Fails Fact-Check

The Huffington Post | Luke Johnson | Posted 12.01.2011

Read More: Health Care Constitutionality, Rick Scott, Video, Rick Scott Health Care Reform, Rick Scott Florida, Health Care Law Constitutionality, Health Care Reform, Obama Health Care Law Constitution, Affordable Care Act, Obama Health Care Law, Conservatives for Patients Rights, Rick Scott Health Care, Obama Health Care, Politics News

Florida Gov. Rick Scott's (R) claim that the Affordable Care Act is "not the law of the land" was ruled "false" Thursday by PolitiFact, the fact-check...

Read Whole Story

"Obamacare" Hater Rick Scott, Now Florida's Governor, Is Doing Exactly What He Falsely Claimed Federal Reform Would Do

Wendell Potter | Posted 10.11.2011

Read More: Florida, Rick Scott, Unitedhealth, Hmos, Obamacare, Health Care, Managed Care, Conservatives for Patients' Rights, Politics News

So much for health care choice and competition vanishing with "Obamacare". It seems as if one of the leaders of the anti-reform crowd, Rick Scott, wasn't a true believer in the value of choice and competition after all.

Read Post

Rick Scott's Group Unveils "Death Star" Strategy For Public Option

The Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jay Rockefeller Public Option, Jay Rockefeller, Conservatives Healthcare, Anti-Reform, Anti-Reform Death Star, Healthcare Ads, Healthcare Reform, Rockefeller Death Star Ad, Conservatives for Patients Rights Death Star, Healthcare Attacks, Conservatives for Patients Rights, Death Star Ad, Politics News

Conservatives for Patients Rights, the well-funded anti-reform group run by controversial former hospital exec Rick Scott, is spending nearly half a m...

Read Whole Story

Conservatives For Patients' Rights Returns To Airwaves

CNN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Health Care, Conservatives for Patients' Rights, Ted Kennedy, Politics News

WASHINGTON (CNN) - A major player in the health care ad wars is back in the game after a recent suspension of its campaign in the wake of Sen. Ted Ken...

Read Whole Story

Anti-Health Care Reform Group Pulls Ads, Citing Respect For Kennedy

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cpr, Rick Scott Ted Kennedy, Edward Kennedy, Rick Scott, Scott, Ted Kennedy, Conservatives for Patients Rights, Politics News

One of the most vociferous opponents of Democratic health care legislation, led by former hospital executive Rick Scott, has pulled its anti-health ca...

Read Whole Story

Anti-Reform Group Plans Local TV Ads Where Obama Is Vacationing

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Vacation, Tv Ads, Health Care Ads, Obama Health Care Reform, Health Care Reform, TV Ads Obama Vacation, Conservatives for Patients' Rights, Politics News

WASHINGTON — A group opposed to President Barack Obama's health-care proposals is planning an ad campaign to run locally while the first family ...

Read Whole Story

Conservatives For Patients' Rights Ad Mocks Obama's Vacation

The Huffington Post | T.J. Ortenzi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Bush, Video, Town Hall, Swift Boat, Obama Vacation, Health Care Reform, Obama, Swift Boat Ads, Conservatives for Patients' Rights, Bush Vacation, Martha's Vineyard, Politics News

An organization taking credit for ginning up protesters at health care town halls has produced an ad mocking President Obama's vacation. The ad by Co...

Read Whole Story

Right-Wing Group Tricked British Women Into Appearing In Anti-Reform Ad

Think Progress | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Anti-Reform Ad, Cpr, Nhs, Conservatives for Patients Rights, Politics News

Earlier this year, Conservatives for Patients Rights (CPR), an anti-health care reform group led by the disgraced former CEO of Columbia/HCA Healthcar...

Read Whole Story

How a Democratic Candidate for Texas Governor Relates to the Town Hall Mobs

Rachel Farris | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Richard Scott HCA, Texas Primary, Texas, Town Hall, Health Care Reform, Tom Schieffer, Texas Governor, Health Care, Conservatives for Patients' Rights, Politics News

Ambassador Tom Schieffer, you wannabe-Democratic-nominee-for-Governor of Texas, hoping to skim past the primary, you have friends who are "no tells-ies" of your own.

Read Post

Rick Sanchez Grills Rick Scott On Town Halls, Medicare Fraud (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Town Halls, Health Care Town Halls, Rick Scott, Conservatives for Patients Rights, Video, Media News

CNN's Rick Sanchez went hard after Rick Scott, leader of Conservatives For Patients' Rights, first on his role in the anti-reform town hall protests a...

Read Whole Story

Anti-Reform Group Takes Credit For Helping Gin Up Town Hall Rallies

The Plum Line | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Protests, Town Hall Protests, Obama Town Hall, Health Care Tea Parties, Obama Health Care Protests, Conservatives for Patients Rights, Politics News

Conservatives for Patients' Rights, the operation that's running a national campaign against a public health care option, is now publicly taking credi...

Read Whole Story

Un-Spinning Healthcare Reform: Part 1

Kimberly Krautter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hillary Care, Newsweek, This Week With George Stephanopoulos, Steny Hoyer, Healthcare Reform, Socialism, President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Obama Healthcare Reform, Terry Lierman, Conservatives for Patients' Rights, Jim DeMint Waterloo, Health Care, Politics News

One of the most infuriating aspects to the issue of healthcare reform is the lack of honest debate by our public officials.

Read Post

Conservatives Step Up Ad Campaign Against Obama Health Plan

AP | ERICA WERNER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Conservatives for Patients' Rights, Obama, President Obama, Health Care, Public Health Care, Obama Health Care Plan, Rick Scott, Politics News

WASHINGTON — A conservative group that's been running ominous ads warning that President Barack Obama will institute government-run health care ...

Read Whole Story

Conservative Health Care Group Caught Fabricating Ad Controversy

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Video, Health Care for America Now, Issue Ads, Health Care Reform, Comcast, Conservatives for Patients' Rights, Eat the Press, Politics News

As the fight over health care reform heats up, the teevee airwaves have become one of the battlegrounds. And the rivalry between pro-reform Health Ca...

Read Whole Story

RIck Scott, Ex-Hospital CEO, Leads The Campaign Against Health Care Reform

Washington Post | Dan Eggen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Campaign to Defeat Health Care Reform, Health Care Reform, Conservatives for Patients' Rights, Rick Scott, Politics News

The television ads that began airing last week feature horror stories from Canada and the United Kingdom: Patients who allegedly suffered long waits f...

Read Whole Story

Healthcare Enemy No. 1: The Millionaire Republican Who Could Kill Reform

The Nation | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rick Scott, Health Care Reform, Republicans Healthcare, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Conservatives for Patients' Rights, Healthcare, Obama Health Care Reform, Politics News

Rush Limbaugh offers Democrats an irresistible target as the de facto leader of the Republican Party, but for my money, Rick Scott is the man who best...

Read Whole Story