Calle Me Hard Heartied---Medicare and Scooters

A CASUAL OBSERVATION AND COMMENT


Yesterday, I was in the grocery store and this big blob of a woman who must of weighed in at 250 lbs almost hit me with her electric scooter.

I casually observed her shopping for food items and followed her around for a while. There she goes buying two big bags of potato chips, a couple of lbs. of hamburger meat, a gallon of whole milk, half gallon of ice cream, four of those big plastic bottles of regular coke, Saltine crackers, two kinds of blocks of cheese, Oreos and assorted other snack food. She certainly passed on the vegetables and fruits.

The thought occurred to me that she received this scooter free as Medicare paid for it. Then I began thinking about all the people I see here in Florida on those scooters. They are everywhere. Every one I've observed has two legs and
arms, but they are all bloated and fat. Very seldom do I see where it's really needed.

Now I can imagine her daily scenario as well as other scooter people like her.

She will go home and sit on her big fat ass and stuff herself with fattening junk food and watch television.

I see these fat scooter people every time I leave the house and we have several in the neighborhood. They all look perfectly fine except they become big blobs of soft mushy fat.

What they should be doing is walking and eating better and they could throw away those damn scooters.

What's in their head?

Medicare is paying out millions of dollars for these scooters because the doctors give them a prescription for it without really counseling them to get out and walk and eat right.

The Scooter Man is bombarding our televisions with his ads saying "I guarantee Medicare will pay for your scooter or it's free."

Now don't get me wrong. If a person is lacking a leg or has a spinal injury, etc I don't begrudge them. But, I see them get off the scooter in the parking lot and power it up a ramp into their van or use that little attachment made for the rear of a car and then calmly walk to the driver's door and get in.

I think it's a waste of our medicare tax dollars to pay for their scooters that can cost up to $4,000.

I think their doctors should not prescribe them to these people and should tell them to walk more, eat right and loose weight.

Call me hard hearted if you want.

Bob White