receive any medicare assistance. >> like i said, i'm not promising. does the hospital not have some type of charity program that could potentially help? >> well, we're looking at everything right now. >> now earlier today, we reached out to the south carolina department of health and human services, their press office said they'd call us right back with their chief information officer on the line, but that never happened. we do know that state officials are, for some reason, actually investigating this incident for any possible wrong doing on the part of state employees. on his project veritas website, james o'keefe boosts that in this time of economic uncertainty, the american people deserve to know how their tax dollars are being wasted. this should be a wake-up call for close scrutiny of the medicaid system. he's right to say the american people deserve to know how their tax dollars are being wasted, and now the people of south carolina know their tax dollars are being wasted investigating a goofy right-wing stunt.