Dr. Mehmet Oz
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But unfortunately, I'll just give you a lay the land.
There are twice as many durable medical equipment providers.
They sell wheelchairs and knee braces.
There's actually 20 times more in South Florida than McDonald's.
I mean, how many do you need?
Turns out they're all Cuban, pretty much.
They all seem to fly back to Cuba and escape law enforcement.
They bill millions of dollars.
They get away with it.
There's got to be a really practical, easy solution.
There are.
And I'm going to share that.
But let me just give you two others because you're going to remember these.
We have seven times more hospice in California.
Hospice is for people at the end of their life.
Seven times more hospice than was there five, six, seven years ago.
Seven times more.
We don't have that many people dying in California.
And more importantly, the survival rates on hospice, again, designed for cancer patients dying within six months.
The survival rate for most of these hospice centers is 100%.