Medicare Scams: Symptoms of an Uncivilized Society

Greed is the one thing we have come to expect from our fellow man. It’s a sad reality. It’s a weakness, but it can be overcome.

Children succumb to greed, they see something they want so they take it. They don’t understand they can’t have everything they see. If their parent(s) have proper parenting skills they see this as an opportunity to set the child on the path to proper behavior befitting a civilized society.

But we are dealing with adults who years ago should have already learned how to control their instinct to steal. And this is what really pisses me off. The realization that these people are stealing from their own family, their fellow Americans, even themselves, and they are too blind in their greed to recognize this fact.

Medicare is in place to help Americans cover their medical expenses, and, like any other federal social program, is supported by federal tax dollars. Tax dollars that even the people who steal from Medicare are paying. So thieves are essentially stealing from themselves.

Now, they can rationalize all they want about how the system is costing them too much, about all the waste taking place in the system, about how they are entitled to get more out of it, or how they should be compensated more for their work or whatever other excuse thieves come up with. But the bottom line is they are stealing from their fellow Americans. People who are struggling to make ends meet just as they are. People who are now suffering even more because they have been stolen from. This behavior of thieves makes them all the more pitiful.

I don’t understand how adults, supposedly civilized adults, steal from their neighbor? From their own family? From their friends? How do you justify this behavior?

People may dress like civilized adults, but their actions is what truly define them. They may tidy themselves up, get haircuts and shave, put on a show of trustworthiness, but they are still lowlife scumbags who steal from their fellow man. These people make me ashamed to have to associate with them.

How have we gotten to the point where we will steal from our own neighbor, our own family, our own future? Thieves make it even more difficult for the rest of us to get by because of the ripple effect. Theft requires more prevention safeguards to be instituted and the costs of these safeguards get passed onto the honest customer.

I find it especially disheartening to feel the need to say these things to adults, but obviously someone has to do it. Live within your means, stop putting yourselves above others and realize we are all in this together. We are all struggling. Please don’t make the business of survival tougher on the rest of us.