Governmental Healthare at its Finest

And we want THEM to take complete control?

Wheelchairs designed for use outside the home will no longer be covered by Medicaid under a rule change that disabled-rights advocates say is misguided, and one occupational therapist likened to placing hundreds of Utahns on house arrest.

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Anonymous
…because a **private** insurance company would **never** try and cheap out on its customers.
Give me a break.
I don’t have to agree with the Medicare foibles to disagree with you. If you are going to point out the horrible flaws in Medicare as proof that public medicine is bad you need to prove that the same things can’t happen in private healthcare. They can and they do–on a regular basis.
Anonymous
There is terrible abuse in the Medicare funded wheelchair business. I am glad to see them clamp down.
Zagreus Ammon
I agree Kevin, what does this have to do with government health care other than a good example of good sense!!! Most of the people who get these scooters (not really wheelchairs), are people who could otherwise walk but have a hard time for a variety of reasons. Unfortunately, as I am sure you’re aware, patients often like the easier way out, but the lack of effort leads to a cycle of atrophy, disuse and more atrophy.
Advocates for the disabled need to ensure a mechanism for right chair to the right person. Luxury has no place in government health care, but needs must absolutely be addressed.
Greg P
All the same, where they also need to clamp down are on these companies with nationwide ads that imply that it’s easy to get Medicare to pay for power chairs/scooters.
So then I suddenly get forms in the mail, in which I’m supposed to lie about the patient’s need for them.
For many, a manual chair is more practical and certainly adequate.
Anonymous
The post says medicaid so why are all of you saying medicare?
This is another example of some people ruining something that is beneficial to others. I live in a high rise condo building and some of these people are nuts the way they zoom down the halls making you jump out of their way and then get it on the elevator down to the lobby and then jump up and walk to their cars and hop in as though nothing at all is wrong with them. I have seen to many times these same people skipping down the hallways to ever believe they are in need of a wheelchair. they just need to get off their ass and walk.
ERnursey
If you lived in my town and saw all the people driving around town in their electric wheelchairs that they use like their car, you wouldn’t believe it. Most of them are under 40 and ‘disabled’ for chronic back pain, PTSD or some other crock of shit and on medicaid.
Happyman
i’ve heard that DME suppliers get something like $10,000-$20,000 from medicare for the wheelchairs! (and it DOES partially come from medicaid too, at least in NY state, for those “dual-eligibles” with medicaid supplemental coverage).
It’s no wonder that there are TV ads for this crap, and why fat arthritic (but not disabled) patients push their doctors to lie on paper to justify somebody else paying for it.
Anyone who’s been to disneyworld & waited in line for an hour will agree that these are MOSTLY unnecessary. How many times have you seen a clan of like 20 people with one “disabled” person in an electric scooter race to the front of the line, then the scooter guy gets up & walks onto the ride with little apparent difficulty?
Handicapped spots are another example of how doctors are asked to exaggerate or lie for patients/families. I rarely see a legitimately handicapped person using a handicapped parking spot.

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