Is the world a safer place because of Seniors who disregard free medical services made available to them?

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I would say so in this case. We have a commercial over here where a woman is calling her cat and lets in a raccoon because she cannot see well. I laugh every time I see it....Show more

Uh, to the other answerer, there is no indication other than the alarm going off that it was being stolen. It was just a bunch of kids that probably set their own alarm off.

But to the question of free medical services, I suppose it depends on your definition of the words free, medical, and services.
Is if really free if you pay your taxes and those taxes pay for the services? Isn't it so that the more people that take advantage of these services, the more money the government pays toward these services? So if a person objects to their taxes going toward such a service, isn't the only truly democratic way to prevent this to simply not partake of these services?

Generally a service is something that you want done for you. If someone does not want the service, then of what service is it to them?

Medical records are generally confidential. Many would object to the government having an excuse to look at ones medical records. Who knows who could be in the position of power and what abuses they might try. Certainly anyone who has a fear of their freedom being taken away is not going to want to give the government any information which may be used as an excuse to do so. I would not want to participate in a free eye exam if it meant giving the government a foothold into my private life such that they might take away my rights by declaring me unfit.
The video was obvious comedy which is certainly no basis for making a proper decision.
Neither are anecdotes of senile people any reason to believe that all seniors are dangerous to society. That is a clear fallacy.
People are becoming "senile" at a younger age in areas where water is fluoridated. It seems that a combination of aluminum cookware and fluoridated water results in young Alzheimers.
The American Dental Association continues to recommend the addition of fluoride to the water supply in spite of the evidence of its harm to mental health. Wonderful, I'll have fewer cavities while I'm a drooling vegetable. It's enough to make anyone distrust anyone in a white coat....Show more

How do we know that car was being stolen? Those men may have been on their way to report the old lady to the police! How did she get her car out, without moving the other car?
Since the cars were the same make , style and model, and the same color , What good would an eye exam do?...Show more

That is funny. Do they allow such language in U.K. commercials? Some commercials now are far better than the terrible television programs these days....Show more

That's funny. I don't think such public service ads could appear on American TV. We're a very nice nation and we don't allow bad language here....Show more