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>> if there is a claimant who didn't get paid and they are waiting and waiting, there's something about that claim that has a problem. >> reporter: his office is paid $1.25 million a month to handle these claims. that has critics asking if he is tilting his decisions in bp's favor. >> who else is going to pay the freight for this program? you can't ask the claimants to pay for the government, state, local and federal government to pay. >> reporter: your concern, you're saying, is not the cost to bp? >> i'm saying that i'm not beholden to bp. >> reporter: still, such arguments clearly sound hol...

Something about that claim that's a problem. >> reporter: feinberg has a problem, too. his office is paid $1.25 million a month by bp to handle these claims. that has critics asking if he is tilting his decisions in bp's favor. but he answers such questions with one of his own. >> who else is going to pay the freight for this program? you can't ask the claimants to pay, you can't ask the government, state, local and federal government to pay. >> reporter: your concern, you're saying, is not the cost to bp? >> i'm saying that i'm not beholden to bp. >> reporter: still, such arguments clearly so...

That has critics asking if he is tilting his decisions in bp's favor. but he answers such questions with one of his own. >> who else is going to pay the freight for this program? you can't ask the claimants to pay, you can't ask the government, state, local and federal government to pay. >> reporter: your concern, you're saying, is not the cost to bp? >> i'm saying that i'm not beholden to bp. >> reporter: still, such arguments clearly sound hollow for those convinced that they are being marginalized by the reimbursement program. folks, who a year after the spill, are still waiting to be made ...

>> who else is going to pay the freight for this program? you can't ask the claimants to pay for the government, state, local and federal government to pay. >> reporter: your concern, you're saying, is not the cost to bp? >> i'm saying that i'm not beholden to bp. >> reporter: still, such arguments clearly sound hollow for those convinced that they are being marginalized by the reimbursement program. folks, who a year after the spill, are still waiting to be made hold, and losing hope it will ever happen. tom foreman, cnn, grand isle, louisiana. joining us again is billy and the managing end...

Top tax bracket, the program will cost you more than $2,000. under the reimbursement program, doctors can receive $100,000 from medicare and medicaid. hospitals are eligible for millions. most agree this is long overdue, critics wonder why the public has to pay for this, as a patient and taxpayer. supports say, however, that sometimes you have to spend money to save money. that's what this incentive does. in los angeles, william la jeunesse, fox news. >> jim: so far the majority of those voting in the taxpayer poll disagree with the program. 81% don't think it's worth their tax dollars. 13% do...