Suffering Scooters

" Go back to FOX & Friends democratic senator Claire McCaskill suggesting she's got a way to cut hundreds of billions of dollars. From Medicare without cutting services to patients in need. Here's what she told her own Chris Wallace."

" Why how many ads you -- for scooters on cable TV that I see a lot of them those are skaters paid for by the American people and a lot of them are going to. Folks who don't need scooters. It's one example of many examples where we are paying for services or things instead of outcomes. But will we proposed health care overhaul -- let."

" They necessary equipment for patients. And do more harm than good joining us in addition to -- on -- scooter is Fox News medical contributor. Doctor Mark Siegel on planes just tear him. Give us a visual and exactly what we're talking about -- if this gonna get caught. You know I certainly hope -- I mean this underlines the irrationality of bureaucrats making health decisions and in all due respect to senator McCaskill. But she doesn't know anything about these things I've been prescribing -- my entire career you know. This is for an independent lifestyle without a scooter without a motorized wheelchair you can be paralyzed -- the only life you have. Is a motorized wheelchair Michael my mother in law has multiple sclerosis she cannot push a wheelchair around she -- there's no -- to do it for her my father or sick she needs to motorized wheelchair you heard her argument which is that there's this epidemic of these -- being given to people that don't need them is that -- experience the first of all she would have no way of knowing that. It's a concern she has no way of knowing that and is not my experience because. Without without the scooter. You can't -- always sorry for that -- weigh in here I mean this seriously but he can't go shopping you can't you can't get the things you need. Think of yourself -- paralyzed meeting in motorized wheelchair wanna distinguishes the scooters for elderly people that can't walk could have severe back pain. The motorized wheelchair you can have emphysema you could be paralyzed for -- waist down. You know -- it right we'll check the baucus bill is targeting both for destruction for for many of our viewers these scooters are about a commercial are there other devices. That could be cut as well under this proposed on very very concerned about."

" you know device makers are gonna have a higher tax pacemakers could end up being cut. You can end up having all kinds of assisted devices -- you know people that have problems breathing and respirator assistance. You know it's very concerned concerning about the motorized wheelchairs. 67% of the people using them or not even the elderly -- the disabled most are women. You know I don't really wanna see people that really need this get the device cut. And where's the -- gonna go it's gonna go to people. That don't have insurance now so that's what I call redistribution let's take. The care away from people who need that needed the most and let's cover people that don't have it but may not need -- care. That is redistribution of care and I'm very concerned about that -- story that's touched your life."

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