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The first is about who the Government is referring to as "one of the biggest perpetrators of fraud in the country", The Scooter Store. Overbilled Medicare and Medicaid over $100 million from 2009-2012 for medically unnecessary home power wheelchairs.
This is just one of hundreds of companies across that nation that are cheating the government out of millions of dollars. Making it more difficult for people that have a real need to access services and making life far more stressful for medical providers having to fight through increasingly more complex regulations to help their needy patients.
The second is even more infuriating than the first. Wheelchair miracles are on the rise at most major airports, as airport officials estimate that 15% of all airport wheelchair requests are fake, as a way for passengers to skip lines and to travel through airports faster.
I rarely travel by airplane, but this is similar to our experience at Disneyland last year. After waiting in the Carsland car ride line for 90 minutes starting at 10:15pm one night, we were growing increasingly irritated by all of the people walking through the fast track line accompanied by workers. These were apparently people claiming difficulty standing and walking long enough to wait in line, instead receiving a golden ticket to the front of the line.
Some candid Diz workers told us that they thought that about 50% of those people that use the wheelchairs or skip to the front of the line for medical reasons are fakes. But they don't question motives, they just accommodate requests, while the rest of us suckers stand there in line for hours with impatient little kids.
This is just one of hundreds of companies across that nation that are cheating the government out of millions of dollars. Making it more difficult for people that have a real need to access services and making life far more stressful for medical providers having to fight through increasingly more complex regulations to help their needy patients.
The second is even more infuriating than the first. Wheelchair miracles are on the rise at most major airports, as airport officials estimate that 15% of all airport wheelchair requests are fake, as a way for passengers to skip lines and to travel through airports faster.
I rarely travel by airplane, but this is similar to our experience at Disneyland last year. After waiting in the Carsland car ride line for 90 minutes starting at 10:15pm one night, we were growing increasingly irritated by all of the people walking through the fast track line accompanied by workers. These were apparently people claiming difficulty standing and walking long enough to wait in line, instead receiving a golden ticket to the front of the line.
Some candid Diz workers told us that they thought that about 50% of those people that use the wheelchairs or skip to the front of the line for medical reasons are fakes. But they don't question motives, they just accommodate requests, while the rest of us suckers stand there in line for hours with impatient little kids.
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