claim: "the cost-saving measures we put into place at columbia/hca drove down national health care inflation from 18% to 8% in seven years."
author: rick scott
evidence_1: oct 30, 2018 ... scott was ceo of columbia/ hca, which was fined $1.7 billion for medicare fraud  (that's billion with a b, as in $1,700,000,000.00). the epic .... “the cost-saving  measures we put into place at columbia/hca drove down national health care  inflation from 18% to 8% in seven years.” — rick scott on thursday ...
evidence_2: "the cost-saving measures we put into place at columbia/hca drove down  national health care inflation from 18% to 8% in seven years." — politifact  florida on ...
evidence_3: jan 1, 1999 ... boston medical center — boston, massachusetts. ..... of public-sector cost-cutting  efforts, the increasingly competitive hospital ..... the fact that we were turned  down by some hospitals may have ...... the conversion which took place seven  years ago or to subsequent ...... ceos of seton and columbia/hca.
evidence_4: aug 13, 2014 ... www.hca.wa.gov ..... in the early stages of its progression will be more effective  and cost less than ... drive a reduction in the impact of diabetes in washington. ...  environments in the past several years, we continue to see policies and .... b) use  a combination of public health and health systems funding at a ...
evidence_5: sep 21, 2009 ... appendix a-8: medicaid quality measures in place in the 50 states and district of  ...... at a minimum, states draw down $1.00 of federal money for ... headed into  state fiscal year 2010, the national unemployment rate hit 9.7 ...... than enrollment , due to health care inflation, provider rate increases, and ...