Mal Mixon, Chairman and CEO of Invacare Corp., another major manufacturer, adds: "We expect serious access issues for consumers with severe disabilities, as well as seniors with mobility impairments. We have an Americans with Disabilities Act that is supposed to ensure the highest quality of life possible for people living with disabilities. Yet, this Administration's payment policy for power wheelchairs will effectively prevent people with disabilities from being able to obtain the power wheelchair they need to get around in their homes, as well as in their communities."

Andrew Imparato, president and CEO of the American Association of People with Disabilities said: "The Medicare mobility benefit as we knew it is gone. CMS has chipped away at the benefit over the last three years, and this latest step ensures that people living with disabilities will get little help from Medicare when they need a power wheelchair to remain independent, and out of institutions."

this is so sad.

how much is medicare paying to have someone come in and help people in their homes? how does it cost annually to be in an institution?

and they cut costs so they can pay out more elsewhere? and people lose their independecy.