Is Rick Scott's (R-FL) drug test push simply a kickback scheme?

[NightWatcher]

Rick Scott’s new gift to Solantic: drug testing state employees http://blog.reidreport.com/2011/03/rick-scotts-new-gift... /

Florida has just under 168,000 state employees, including just over 105,000 in the executive branch. For Rick Scott, that means nearly 170,000 new potential customers for his … sorry, his wife’s … Solantic walk-in clinics.

Scott’s newest scheme, which will help him turn a profit from his $70 million investment in becoming a one-term Florida governor, would be genius if it weren’t so darned evil. Fresh off his plan to drug test welfare recipients in the state, compounding what for many people is an embarrassing experience, having to take public assistance, Scott now plans to visit the same humiliation on state workers. You know, the ones who haven’t had a raise in four years and who are about the have their unions shredded and their pensions hollowed out by the right wing legislature.

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Does wife's stake in Solantic pose conflict of interest to Rick Scott? http://jacksonville.com/opinion/blog/400638/jeremy-cox/...

Gov. Rick Scott has worked hard to disabuse critics of his potential conflict of interest with Solantic, the Jacksonville-based clinic chain he co-founded.

He got out of making day-to-day decisions over a year ago and, more recently, transferred his interest in the company to a trust in his wife's name.

Those efforts may be "designed to meet the letter of Florida ethics laws

[atreides1]

1. Yes

Is there really any doubt?

[spanone]

2. he's cheated in business before...to the tune of 1.7 billion dollar fines

for HCA......http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/06/26/1703036/rick-scott-and-his-role-in-columbiahca.html

[meegbear]

3. When I read that they were charging people $35, I figured it's them just being a dick ...

with this part of the puzzle in, this is a kickback for sure.

[anarch]

4. No

I mean, it is a kickback scheme for sure, but it's also an oppressive, demoralizing tactic of the sort fairly commonly used by fascists.