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Released a report finding that industry-wide, 80% of medicare payments for power chairs, they are made in error. now, you see from 2009 to 2012, government auditors found that the scooter store overbilled medicare by as much as $108 million. it's estimated that medicare fraud costs taxpayers an estimated $60 billion to $90 million each year. the obama administration has made it a top priority to cut down on health care fraud. for every dollar spent on investigating health care fraud the past three years, the government has recovered $7.90. when republicans tell you that gutting medicare benefi...

To people just like you. >> john: no cost to people like you. sounds great except nothing is really free. the power wheelchairs cost you taxpayers via medicare about $3,000 each. now, medicare pays less than $1,000 for a scooter like this one. i think it's pretty good. it's maneuverable, yet, lots of people, probably most people get the chair. why? when they cost much more. there are less flexible and the u.s. inspector jn say most the people who get the power chairs don't need them shouldn't have gotten them. now, this is a little complicated. so here to try to explain is jean, and jennifer, ...

Daily life requires, getting in and out of bed. on and off the toilet. you know, they exist and that's very important and in and out of the shower, so, that is one of the-- i use it all the time and enables me to move up to the kitchen sink and wash dishes or to the stove where i cook every day. so, i find this enorm mustily flexible. >> john: it's like you're doing a commercial with this thing. you can't do this with a power chair. >> you can't do some things i'm doing. and they're adding some features and i believe some power chairs have electric seat lifts. >> john: what's your complaint? >...

Daily life requires, getting in and out of bed. on and off the toilet. you know, they exist and that's very important and in and out of the shower, so, that is one of the-- i use it all the time and enables me to move up to the kitchen sink and wash dishes or to the stove where i cook every day. so, i find this enorm mustily flexible. >> john: it's like you're doing a commercial with this thing. you can't do this with a power chair. >> you can't do some things i'm doing. and they're adding some features and i believe some power chairs have electric seat lifts. >> john: what's your complaint? >...

To people just like you. >> john: no cost to people like you. sounds great except nothing is really free. the power wheelchairs cost you taxpayers via medicare about $3,000 each. now, medicare pays less than $1,000 for a scooter like this one. i think it's pretty good. it's maneuverable, yet, lots of people, probably most people get the chair. why? when they cost much more. there are less flexible and the u.s. inspector jn say most the people who get the power chairs don't need them shouldn't have gotten them. now, this is a little complicated. so here to try to explain is jean, and jennifer, ...