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  Scott, Rick
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<-  2019-01-11  
 
NameRick Scott
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Born December 01, 1952 (71 years)
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InfoBorn in Bloomington, Illinois and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, Richard Scott is considered one of America’s foremost entrepreneurs. The son of a truck driver and JC Penney clerk, Rick is known as an innovator in business, health care, and politics, and has developed a reputation in the health care industry for providing affordable, high quality services through a patient-centric approach to cost and care. Rick is the founder of two health care providers, Columbia Hospital Corporation and Solantic Corporation, which builds and operates urgent care facilities throughout Florida. Rick also started Conservatives for Patients’ Rights, an organization founded to defend free market principles in health care that focused successfully on defeating President Obama’s government-run public option plan.

An Early Entrepreneur

After high school and one year of community college, Rick enlisted in the United States Navy, where he served 29 months on active duty including on the USS Glover as a radar man. Rick then enrolled at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and, while also working full-time at a local grocery store, he made his first significant foray into the business world by buying two Kansas City doughnut shops for his mother to manage.

Following graduation from UMKC with a bachelor’s degree in business administration, Rick earned a law degree from Southern Methodist University. He stayed in Dallas, working for the city’s largest law firm, Johnson & Swanson, primarily representing companies in the health care, oil and gas and communication industries. His specialization was in health care mergers and acquisitions and it was during his work on these transactions that he recognized how patients could be better served by improving hospital efficiency, which would lead to lower costs and better outcomes.

In the spring of 1987, while still practicing law, Rick put together a six billion dollar finance package and made an offer to purchase HCA, Inc. When the offer was rejected, Rick started Columbia with his entire life savings of $125,000.

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JOB APPROVAL POLLS
DateFirmApproveDisapproveDon't Know
02/29/2024-03/01/2024 Public Policy Polling 34.00% ( 8.0) 44.00% ( 3.0) 42.00% ( 30.0)
02/07/2022-02/20/2022 University of North Florida 37.00% ( 7.0) 40.00% ( 4.0) 23.00% ( 4.0)
08/20/2021-08/24/2021 Redfield & Wilton Strategies 39.00% ( 0.0) 35.00% ( 0.0) 26.00% ( 0.0)
08/28/2020-09/01/2020 Quinnipiac University 42.00% ( 1.0) 40.00% ( 4.0) 18.00% ( 3.0)
08/11/2020-08/15/2020 Tyson Group (TelOpinion Research) (R) 41.00% ( 0.0) 39.00% ( 0.0) 19.00% ( 0.0)
07/16/2020-07/20/2020 Quinnipiac University 41.00% ( 1.0) 44.00% ( 6.0) 15.00% ( 5.0)
02/10/2020-02/18/2020 University of North Florida 44.00% ( 19.0) 36.00% ( 5.0) 19.00% ( 13.0)
03/06/2019-03/11/2019 Quinnipiac University 42.00% ( 9.0) 38.00% ( 8.0) 20.00% ( 17.0)
10/16/2018-10/22/2018 Saint Leo University 55.00% ( 5.6) 38.70% ( 7.5) 6.30% ( 1.9)
09/19/2018-09/24/2018 Cherry Communications 50.00% ( 0.0) 46.00% ( 0.0) 4.00% ( 0.0)
FAVORABILITY POLLS
DateFirmFavorableUnfavorableDon't Know
09/17/2022-09/20/2022 Civiqs 36.00% ( 0.0) 53.00% ( 0.0) 11.00% ( 0.0)
11/01/2018-11/03/2018 Emerson College 42.00% ( 0.0) 46.00% ( 0.0) 12.00% ( 0.0)
09/24/2018-09/27/2018 Mason-Dixon 42.00% ( 1.0) 42.00% ( 4.0) 16.00% ( 5.0)
09/20/2018-09/24/2018 Quinnipiac University 46.00% ( 3.0) 51.00% ( 4.0) 3.00% ( 1.0)
09/16/2018-09/20/2018 Marist Institute 46.00% ( 0.0) 45.00% ( 0.0) 9.00% ( 0.0)
08/30/2018-09/03/2018 Quinnipiac University 49.00% ( 8.0) 47.00% ( 1.0) 4.00% ( 9.0)
04/10/2018-04/11/2018 Public Policy Polling 47.00% ( 0.0) 46.00% ( 0.0) 8.00% ( 0.0)
02/24/2017-02/28/2017 Mason-Dixon 41.00% ( 0.0) 38.00% ( 0.0) 21.00% ( 0.0)
10/22/2014-10/27/2014 Quinnipiac University 41.00% ( 1.0) 46.00% ( 2.0) 13.00% ( 1.0)
10/14/2014-10/20/2014 Quinnipiac University 40.00% ( 2.0) 48.00% ( 0.0) 12.00% ( 2.0)

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NEWS
Date Category Headline Article Contributor
Feb 22, 2022 10:30am Strategy Rick Scott Releases Far-Right Plan For GOP Senate Majority  Article RP 
Sep 24, 2020 11:15am Proposed Legislation Bill proposed by Sen. Rick Scott requires states to count and report election ballots within 24 hours  Article RP 
Dec 04, 2018 01:25pm News Gov. Rick Scott won't resign early to take Senate seat  Article IndyGeorgia 
Jun 12, 2018 06:15pm Scandal Rick Scott’s ‘Rookie Mistake’ May Have Cost Taxpayers Millions  Article RP 
Mar 21, 2018 10:50am Investigation Documents: Scott administration had long-running role in collapsed FIU bridge  Article RP 
Jun 02, 2016 07:00pm Speculative Donald Trump to meet with Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Monday  Article RP 

DISCUSSION
Importance? 9.16670 Average

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INFORMATION LINKS
RACES
  11/16/2024 US Senate Minority Leader ???
  08/26/2024 FL US Senate - R Primary ???
  08/01/2024 US Vice President - R Selection ???
  02/01/2023 US Senate Budget Committee Minority Members Won 4.44% (-13.33%)
  11/16/2022 US Senate Minority Leader Lost 21.28% (-57.45%)
  11/10/2020 NRSC Chairman Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  01/03/2019 US Senate Budget Committee - Majority Members Won 5.45% (-10.91%)
  01/03/2019 US Senate Commerce Committee Majority Members Won 2.20% (-10.99%)
  11/06/2018 FL US Senate Won 50.05% (+0.12%)
  08/28/2018 FL US Senate - R Primary Won 88.61% (+77.22%)
  11/04/2014 FL Governor Won 48.14% (+1.08%)
  08/26/2014 FL Governor - R Primary Won 87.65% (+77.06%)
  11/02/2010 FL Governor Won 48.87% (+1.15%)
  08/24/2010 FL Governor - R Primary Won 46.35% (+2.81%)
SPECULATIVE, DID NOT RUN
  08/11/2024 US President - R Primaries ???
  01/24/2018 US Secretary of Health & Human Services Lost 0.00% (-56.12%)
  02/10/2017 US Secretary of Health and Human Services Lost 0.00% (-52.53%)
ENDORSEMENTS
AK US Senate - Open Primary - Aug 16, 2022 R Lisa Murkowski
First Circuit Court Judge - Oct 18, 2021 D Gustavo A. Gelpí
Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers - Mar 02, 2021 NPA Reject
US Secretary of Agriculture - Feb 23, 2021 NPA Reject
US Secretary of Veterans Affairs - Feb 08, 2021 NPA Reject
US Secretary of Transportation - Feb 02, 2021 NPA Reject
US Secretary of the Treasury - Jan 25, 2021 NPA Reject
FL US Senate - R Primary - Aug 30, 2016 R Carlos Beruff
Jacksonville, FL Mayor - May 19, 2015 R Lenny Curry
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