Medicaid/Medicare? Those programs is completely, irreversibly and catastrophically bankrupt. Those programs alone are the millstone that is sinking us. So much ink spilled over the subprime mortgage issue, but Medicare/Medicaid will make all that look like a tea party.
It's because the gov't is dipping (borrowing) from these accounts when it should have been invested.
I strongly agree with you. I’ve asked twice about the hovaround wheelchairs that are getting to be everywhere. What happens to these $5K wheelchairs when someone cannot use them any longer or dies? Are they refurbished and given to another or sold by the family? NO response that makes sense!! Also, many of these are fraud as was my father-in-law’s chair. He had enough strength to walk on a walker or roll the wheels with his arms. We called the seller and told them we were going to file a Medicare fraud claim and they came and got it in two days and we’d given them three days!
Also, can’t tell you how many other things that are $100 here and there that he and other seniors have- like bathing and toilet supports they get everytime they are in a different home. My aunt has an expensive inhaler machine that I am sure she is billed for on medicare sitting in her garage for about a year!
What has happened? Unethical people in sales are getting filthy rich distributing these goods by frauding our government. They are aided by the “homes” that care for the elderly as they just throw things away. The ONLY reuse we saw was in a Christian nursing home where they were not wasting the government’s money but took the time to find anything we needed in their little storeroom.