BIRMINGHAM, Alabama – Richard Scrushy said the turmoil Obamacare has created in the U.S. healthcare system is comparable to what allowed him to start HealthSouth Corp. 30 years ago.

The Affordable Care Act – better known as “Obamacare” – is seen by some as chaos but for entrepreneurs Scrushy said it could be viewed as opportunity.

"Right now is really a great time," Scrushy told Neil Cavuto on FOX Business Network's "Cavuto" program today. "You know, back in 1982, 1983 when the healthcare laws changed, we went from a cost-based reimbursement system to a diagnostic-related group program, it cut about a third of all the profits out of all of the ancillaries and hospitals. It created an opportunity to build a new healthcare model that was more efficient to move patients through the system, get them off the healthcare dollar. That's the grounds we built and the foundation we build HealthSouth on."

Scrushy said he sees an opportunity to make lemonade out of lemons when it comes to Obamacare.

“Right now, today I see a similar change,” he said. “Any time you have change, you open doors and new opportunities. I think all of the real entrepreneurs in the healthcare business are chomping at the bit now to try to make lemonade out of this situation. I believe there are a lot of them that will. Just in my daily phone calls I see so many opportunities.”

Scrushy did provide a glimpse at some of those opportunities.

“What are the opportunities? What does all of that create? Look, doctors need help,” he said. “I’m working with a company, for example, and have been in discussions with them about creating a better system for doctors where they can actually increase doctors’ profitability by 30 to 40 percent; increase the flow of patients, increase their business systems and whatnot. I’ve talked to other companies that can help providers where they can work with existing hospitals, existing surgery centers, imaging centers, and help bring more business into them and create efficiencies in their situations.”

Despite his excitement, Scrushy is unable to lead or sit on the board of a publicly traded company.

The HealthSouth Corp. founder and crestfallen former chief executive looked older with thinner and graying hair as he fielded questions from Cavuto.

Scrushy said an August decision by U.S. District Court Judge Inge Johnson that determined he remains unfit to lead a new public company had more to do with inadequate lawyering than his own past in which he was convicted of bribing former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman and found guilty in a civil suit of being "the CEO of the fraud" that inflated earnings by $2.7 billion over several years at HealthSouth. Scrushy was acquitted of criminal fraud charges.

“I think that part of the reason the judge ruled that simply we didn’t do a good job from a legal standpoint filing our motion,” Scrushy told Cavuto. “The judge had said that I could come back in five years and have that SEC bar removed and that’s what we did. Apparently we did not prove all the points that she wanted us to prove, so you know, we will take some of the blame on that and I think she is a good judge and I really think we have done the things she wanted us to do, so I’m not bitter about that as well.”

The ban, which Scrushy agreed to as part of a settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, prevents him from being involved with another company that sells securities to the public.

“And I don’t know that I would ever serve on the board of a public company or even want to be the CEO of a public company again, but I do want to be involved in building companies and helping companies and advising companies,” Scrushy said.

Scrushy talked to to Cavuto about the public failures of the launch of Obamacare, but said Pres. Barack Obama shouldn’t be blamed.

“I truly don’t believe that you can blame the President on this. I know if I’d hired a group like this to do that and they failed, I would hope I wouldn’t be blamed for it,” he said. “Well I think that you cannot deny it. The fact that everyone is disappointed in that, but you know, I have built and been involved in building a lot of digital programs, websites and been involved in a lot of different things that are similar – I mean I can understand this failing like it did.”

In the lead-in to the interview with Scrushy, Cavuto said there are those who believe the government targeted Scrushy because he found a way to deliver healthcare better and more efficient than the government.

“I do know that once the prosecutors get into your business and they begin to peel back layers, they find things. No one’s perfect. You take companies that have tens of thousands of employees, hundred thousands of employees, nobody’s perfect. People make mistakes,” Scrushy said. “I feel like I was mistreated. I certainly was not guilty of any crime. I did time in prison that I should’ve never done. You’ve got a governor sitting in prison now – five years in prison, the man never did anything wrong. I mean, he may have done some things wrong in his life, but he certainly did not commit this crime.”

Cavuto asked if Scrushy’s lavish lifestyle made him a target.

“I think that’s the American way. I don’t know that my lifestyle even compared with most of the people out there as you look at CEOs of really big companies. Yeah, I had a lake house and I had a farm and, I mean, you know, I had a boat and an airplane. Maybe it’s lavish,” he said. “We built a multibillion-dollar company from scratch that’s worth billions of dollars. I hope that in this country today, if you can build a billion-dollar company that you can go out and spend some money that you make for doing it. And if you hire 50, 60, 70, 80,000 people and you create all of those jobs and pay a billion dollar payrolls that somebody might say, you know, it’s okay for you to spend $10 million on whatever you want. I really think that’s used in courtrooms to make people look bad.”

Cavuto also asked Scrushy about the JPMorgan Chase settlement with the Department of Justice.

“I have to be careful with what I say,” Scrushy responded. “I’ve been a target of the government. I don’t want to rile up a bunch of prosecutors to find something wrong with something else. I’ve moved on, I hate to see the government attacking anybody. I’ve stood in courtrooms where prosecutors absolutely said things that were not true at all and none of them were held accountable for their actions and for the things that they said. I think our whole system is broken.”

Although he still feels he was wronged in the bribery conviction that sent him to prison for more than five years and the civil suit that resulted in an unpaid $2.9 billion judgment against him, Scrushy told Cavuto he is not bitter.

“Not really, life goes on,” he said. “I’ve got a family, I’ve got a future – you just have to put things behind you. I can’t just keep drinking the poison, you got to move forward. You know, I’m an optimist, Neil, and the glass is always half full with me and I believe the future is bright and I am always trying to find the good in everything I do. So no I’m really not bitter, it’s behind me and I’m moving on.”