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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20111218:10:44:00

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, jennifer s father invented the first version of the scooter that gene and i sitting on. jennifer tell us about it. my dad invented the first mobility scooter you re on 1968 for a family members with

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20111218:10:27:00

incremental money it might cost them. peter, you say that price controls on medicare are a game of whack-a-mole, what do you mean. you think of the old arcade game and a table and holes in front you have and a big mallet. every time you whack one mole, another one pops up. if you look at the history of medicare payment reform, that s exactly what it looks like, because every time the government whacks one payment mole, okay, we re going to pay hospitals using this formula and it s going to control costs this way, that s what they did in the 1980 s, guess what happened then. physician payments started to go through the proof so they said okay, we re going to control physician payments and whack that mole. guess what happened then? physicians got paid a little less, but they started to do a lot more services. and people make up for the money that they were losing. game game the system and takes medicare about five years to figure it out on average. how can they stop the fraud w

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20111218:10:37:00

the gym every day of the week, perfectly fit i believe is discriminated against in terms of what they re going to have to pay. john: and this is one of the useful parts of insurance companies, they re forbidden now to exercise under obamacare, but isn t part of the problem of obamacare in all of this discussion, they re talking about coverage, rather than care, insurance companies mean somebody else pays the bill. and then, nobody cares what things cost. your doctor, your patients ever ask? well, very few, because if they are he covered under medicare and under their insurance, they re less concerned than when they re spending their own money. as a surgeon i had did eight operations on people who met their deductibles for the year and needed the operation before the end of the year and of course new year s eve they got their free operation. if they waited until after january 1st, more money out of their own pocket. we i should make it clear to the office he s he an orthopedic s

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20111218:10:00:00

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dwarfs. i think if we did not have the population, the human population, the research would be delayed by years. reporter: today science is one step closer to an elusive goal, a daily pill that wards off diseases that cuts so many lives short. jeffrey kofman, abc news, ecuador. more than 100 health care professionals are now charged with ripping off medicare. more than $225 million. they were all rounded up in nine cities across the country yesterday. most are accused of billing medicare for unnecessary procedures, which are believed to cost the government up to $90 billion every year. the los angeles tv reporter who suddenly began speaking gibberish during a live report from sunday s grammy awards show is speaking publicly for the first time. it appeared serene branson might have suffered a stroke on the

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