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I like this fellow's take on it. Credit to the original author whomever he/she may be:

Call for your free battery powered power chair ! Paid for in full by Medi-Care. Have any of you seen these commercials telling people to call a toll free number for their “free power chair?” How can it be free if in the next sentence these companies make claims that it will cost you “little or no money” and that it is paid for by Medi-Care?

This is yet another slap in the face to the American tax payer. Why? Because its the U.S. tax payer that is footing the bill for this scam on society by telling people that they are free in the first place. So here’s how it works. Some charlatan has this idea to buy these power chairs in bulk wholesale. He then pays for commercial time on television to proclaim to the masses that they are “entitled” (yes, The Scooter Store actually uses the word “entitled”.) to their free power chair. Then they mark these things up 500% and makes a killing un an unsuspecting public.

I actually talked to a rather obese woman at the supermarket yesterday after I overheard her telling the cashier that she had just received one of these $10,000.00 power chairs for free from The scooter place and was proclaiming its greatness. $10,000.00 dollars!!! So I asked her why she needed it in the first place. She said because she has “bad knees.” I almost said to her that perhaps if she lost three hundred pounds she wouldn’t have bad knees.

Which brings me to my next point. It seems that most of the people I see in these power chairs are morbidly obese. So I guess now it has become incumbent of our “compassionate” society to pay for people that have eaten themselves into a such a state of fatness that they can no longer walk on their own. This would mean that essentially its societies fault that they are fat.

What are we doing here? It would occur to me that the last thing you would do to a heroin addict is give them enough “free” heroin to overdose and die. If we were truly a compassionate society we would dupe these obese people into ordering the power chair only to find out upon delivery that in reality they ordered a f*ucking treadmill! Thats right! I said it! A treadmill so they can get the exercise they need and loose the weight! And the contract should read that if they take the treadmill they have to go to a gym and diet as well.

Its the typical convoluted ideology I would expect from the liberal American public at large. Or maybe its because the liberal idiots that allow this nonsense to go on are really hoping to facilitate and early and untimely demise of the morbidly obese. After all for every one American in the hospital for smoking related illnesses there are nine fat people in the hospital for weight related health issues.

It’s sheer lunacy and it pisses me off that they can claim these things are free in the first place. Congress should pass a law that says that EVERYTHING that is call free yet paid for with tax money should have to say at the end of each commercial something like “paid for by the tax payer of the United States of America.” JD

Obesity is not a handicap. It's a choice. A really bad one too.

So does this mean the Slap/Chop is an evil machine?

Just want to know.

Bariatric power chairs and chairs with tilt seating systems are where the costs start to rise greatly.
Plus you're not helping him ridicule phatazz's Jet.....

^ homeslice. That was contex for your rant. You whine, bitch and complain that people don't add to the conversation and I did just that for you. And I didn't state that I was all for it, just gave you facts.
And what if these phatazz's are geneticlly pre-disposed t obesiety? Then will it be like homosexuality and we can make them a protected class instead of ridiculing them?

all that aside this is an area in which I beleive Medicare and Medicaid are getting scammed. I also beleive if we ever really take a hard look at fraud and waste in M&M this will be a prime area to look at.

But fat people are cool in my book.

TW, the profit after accepting Medicare assignment is not good. That is what has propped up mass marketed outfits like "scooter store".
And the "fraud" that occurs (and it does) is easily found when efforts is made. For the most part, the feds focus more on compliance than enforcing offenders.

And those commercials are always playing during the Glen Beck Show. Well, those and the "sell all your gold" ads. I'm waiting for Beck's next sponsor to be "send us your Social Security checks, inc"

So you ran out of material, and you're just going to rewind the tape and start in with the same sh*t all over again, eh?

Hey dude, if you don't like scooters and Glen Beck and fat people, take a walk. Get some ass. Hug your kids, if anyone was stupid enough to breed with you. Nobody gives a sh*t what you think. Life's too short. Smoke a bowl. blah blah blah blah blah.

it took me 3 seconds to copy and paste that. I bet it took you longer to type your flame.

My kid tried to watch WALL-E the other day. I shut it off, because it wasn't Fox News. Then I beat her, made her take a hit of LSD, and made her read all of d-smoker's posts, so she could become a better world citizen. More tolerant of different people. Except of course fat people. And people who aren't liberals. I'm gonna learn her real good. [-o<

And then we went for a walk and I hugged her.

I don't believe half of what you said.

dsmokers, for someone that hates Glenn Beck as much as you do, you sure do know an awfuul lot about all the commercials that come on during his show. By the way, if anyone wants to know about all the articles in Playboy just give me a holler and we can discuss. I can't tell you anything about the pics, however...cuz I don't look at those.

(btw, I think I agree with the OP...or the letter that someone else wrote anyway)

That's why I only read the articles...to expand my "mind"

Mobility outrage.

I often use the store supplied scooters at WallMart, Lowes and Home Depo.
Have a little sensitivity for the fact that people truly need them.

This is complete bull.

In one of your reincarnations, you played the line of the left-wing communist whore, sympathizing with any hard-luck story.

Now you're playing the (unconvincingly bad) curmudgeon who has all-of-a-sudden come to Jesus when it comes to spending other people's money.

To be frank, if you're going to have a stand-out personality, at least be consistent. Right now you just look desperate for attention and approval.

Hey axx hoes...

My daughter is a Sales Mgr for the Scooter store at their office in New Braunfels ,,,

You say Potts doesn't explain himself? YOU!!!!
HAAAAA!!!!!

maybe,,,

I could get ya one with curb feelers..

tru dat

I still wants me one of them scoots.

Thought you had one from Toys R Us...