Medicare is a valuable service and I appreciate it no end.
The very people who need it most are often the ones who
take any and all of the medicare benefits. I am talking about the services of Home Health Care and the scooter stores.

At least twice a week, I get calls from Home Health Care Services offering me benefits that vary from light house
work to the services of a nurse twice a week and someone
to assist me with bathing. I just told one of their reps
who after I told him that I was happy and healthy and didn't
need their services wanted to come by and discuss what they
could do for me. This is overkill. Of course I told him
not to come.

There are people who need their services and people who just use them because they are free for the taking. I have repeatedly seen folks with one foot in the grave acquire a
scooter and then have trouble operating it. There is a man
in my neighborhood who uses it for transportation to the
shopping center. This is near suicidal because of the
heavy traffic. These things are not meant to be street
legal...surely?

If one takes services just because they are free it goes
without saying that they are depleting medicare funds. They
are invaluable benefits for people who need them but I
certainly don't think they should be used capriciously.